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<blockquote data-quote="prosfilaes" data-source="post: 6369840" data-attributes="member: 40166">I think that if you don't plan for something to be permanent, it won't be. Maybe your Picasso won't last forever, but that's not reason not to handle it with care.If you want to run OS/360, first released in 1965, download the Hercules emulator and then download the operating system image (completely legally). And the audience for OS/360 is much smaller then the audience for emulating the early PC games and other nostalgic/historical toying with the first nigh-universal computer. Short of an apocalypse, 50 years from now, PC emulators will be around, as will images of Linux OSes that will display PDF. Moreover, much of the history of the early 21st century is locked in PDFs (just like much of the history of the 20th century is locked in microfilm); it would be stunning if nobody took Poppler or PDF.js, both open source PDF libraries, and ported it to the computers of the future.That's your choice, though. New VHS players are still widely available, as are ways of transferring those to digital media including DVDs. I've transferred what's important from my family's collection of VHS to DVD.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="prosfilaes, post: 6369840, member: 40166"] I think that if you don't plan for something to be permanent, it won't be. Maybe your Picasso won't last forever, but that's not reason not to handle it with care. If you want to run OS/360, first released in 1965, download the Hercules emulator and then download the operating system image (completely legally). And the audience for OS/360 is much smaller then the audience for emulating the early PC games and other nostalgic/historical toying with the first nigh-universal computer. Short of an apocalypse, 50 years from now, PC emulators will be around, as will images of Linux OSes that will display PDF. Moreover, much of the history of the early 21st century is locked in PDFs (just like much of the history of the 20th century is locked in microfilm); it would be stunning if nobody took Poppler or PDF.js, both open source PDF libraries, and ported it to the computers of the future. That's your choice, though. New VHS players are still widely available, as are ways of transferring those to digital media including DVDs. I've transferred what's important from my family's collection of VHS to DVD. [/QUOTE]

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