are made to save things for the next 50 years out of the heart of. the evolution of data storage technology has been accompanied by 2 opposing tendencies the older the data carrier the longer it will in general work but storage capacity in those devices is always relatively low. by contrast modern storage formats can pack a huge amount of data into a fraction of the space that data stored long term one flash drives or s.d. cards generally corrupt within just a few years. the one thing you can count on in the computer industry is that yesterday's cutting edge product will tomorrow look like it came from the digital stone age. were it not for dedicated collectors like felix cons old hardware like this would disappear pretty swiftly