> > not sure what you're hoping to achieve. > > that's the very most important question you should ask yourself.
and I already know the answer?
I'm making a difference to the preservation of these things, so that in 100, 200, maybe even 1000 years things that would have been lost are still accessible and can still be studied, so that no pieces of the jigsaw are missing, so that contributions people made can be traced right back to their origins, so that the full story of certain IP licenses can be told etc. I want to make sure no knowledge is lost when it comes to our computing history to the fullest degree possible (I could list off 100 more reasons and goals here)
you seem to have simply resorted to trolling, if you weren't from the start.