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Originally Posted by mr ploppy
Even if I was still alive in 50 years I would be too busy dribbling to care about computer files. I don't think it will be the problem people seem to think though. If you can still run old C64 programs on a modern computer through an emulator, you will still be able to open a zip file and read html.
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The problem is likely to be not reading the file, but reading the
media. Do you have a machine that can read Commodore 64 cassette tapes?
If you've transferred your files from one medium to another, as the media change, there's no problem. The issue arises when you suddenly need to read very old media, and you don't have the hardware to do it.
Funnily enough, this very week I had to go out and buy a USB floppy disk drive, because I had a need to read some files that I only had on floppy disk, and none of my current PCs has a floppy drive.