Collapse OS
I&#x27;ve been sort of half-assed working on a novel about a post-tech future (100+ years after apocalypse), where a handful of people retained some technology by virtue of having stored information about it in a manner that survived and a tradition of scavenging and trading and a sort of religion based on maintaining it in a working state. So, this is a fun read and thought experiment, even if an 8-bit computer is probably not my highest priority when thinking of &quot;when the shit hits the fan, as seems more likely today than it did five years ago, what do I want to have in my survival kit?&quot;<p>One of the questions I keep coming back to for such a scenario, and still haven&#x27;t come up with a great answer for, is how does someone living in a world without the ability to manufacture a computer still have computers that work 100+ years after the last one was made? Even manufacturing transistors without modern methods is non-trivial. Will a Z80 last 100+ years? I mean, maybe, if it&#x27;s kept dry and not exposed to anything corrosive. I&#x27;ve got a Commodore 64 that&#x27;s ~40 years old and still works...so, 100 years seems reachable, but there have to be extenuating circumstances to get to that &quot;post-tech&quot; world (though I guess in a post apocalyptic world, the value of computers would be seen as minimal for a few years while survival is the only concern, so just forgetting could be enough).