Going forward.
With new technology, there is always some challenges going from an old platform to a new one. Years ago, worked in an independent computer store. This was long before ethernet and the networking that makes things so easy to transfer files between systems. One of my customers who was a college professor wanted to transfer data files from his old eight bit Atari computer to the new Atari. Of course, I volunteered to copy the files to the new system. To copy the files, you had to use what is known as a null modem connection. To make things even more complicated, the way the files were saved were different in that every system had it's own ascii table. For instance, the letter "a" normally would be stored as the number 65. Not all characters were stored as the same numbers between systems. Transferred the files as text between the systems to let the terminal programs do worst of the translation between the systems. For some files though, all but one character was co...