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An Agfa Scanner helped a lot. A linux box to host a temporary website was great. Adobe PageMill was ok, but suffers from performance problems (doing byte I/O across ethernet is painful!) and stability issues (insert table, crash!), however it was free with my iMac, but could be replaced if someone could recommended a better package, non-microsoft please. (Yes!!!! I was given a copy of Adobe Go-Live at MacWorld 2000, much better product, I'm sure they mess with PageMill to make you buy this product for $400 more)
Oh and an sabbatical was needed. Being digital since 1984, wow ancient readable backups, helped build the historical side, and having a mother that never threw anything out greatly assisted the personal side.
In Aug 2007 I undertook a review and restructuring of the web site, mostly done running GoLive 4.01 under os-9 powerpc under SheepShaver powerpc emulator on a MacIntel machine.
A thought occurs, today I'm afraid my grand-children won't be able to read letters from me from 60 years from now, goodness knows there are letters in the cellar dating back 100 years. Will they have a Syquest unit, a Zip disk, or even a 650MB CDROM? Let alone a 2.2MB DAT unit? Will that little HP 2.2GB SCSI disk power up, or the dual 9GBs ones? Paper rules, remember that! Even if I keep all my outgoing email , I do, will someone care? Or be able to read it in 2059?
I wonder if my ISP will take a 100 years of post-dated cheques? Well unlikely because I ditched the one I had in 2002 for non-performance reasons.