One of the reason why I'm holding this blog is to archive things I consider important enough to be kept in a longterm platform as I hope this one to be? A while back, I wanted to put online the thesis I wrote in the mid-90's... wow that sounds old! Being optimistic I though this would be a simple matter... it is not as if I wrote this with a typewriter requiring me to scan the entire document! Word processor existed back then and I even used what was considered at the time the top of word processor: WordPerfect.
Well this wishful thinking was ignoring limitation of technology and its rapid obsolescence. When I consider what I ended up using to archive this important piece of work> not USB Flash drive, not CD , not DVD, not even Zip drive.. yes on those 3.5inch floppy disk: there was simply no chance of getting it back. I did manage to restore one diskette, but was less successful in reading and converting its format (of course I kept the files on their original WP 5.2 format ! ).
Anyway, enough allusion to my age, and here is the main content of this post> A full scan in pdf of my thesis dated back from 1994:
Martin
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