Talk:Digital Dark Age
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One example is that a word processor document saved in the WordStar format popular in the 1980s cannot be read by software typically installed on modern PCs.
That's not a good example: [1] You have to get much more obscure than WordStar for this to be a problem, yet.
Actually, I would be more worried about broken files, which happen to be accepted by the software that created them, but don't really conform to the relevant spec. Formats that are really an executable language, like PostScript, are a particular problem: when they are broken, it can be very difficult to get any useful information out. --DavidHopwood 00:58, 2 September 2007 (UTC)
