I found this pretty impressive:

> Then I did the real test. After poking around and finding a tape of my

> old BASIC programs I typed LOAD again and explored the tape. 30 years on

> all the programs loaded from tape just fine and executed. I was able to

> spend a happy few hours playing character-based games that I wrote.

That his programs loaded after 30 years on a cassette tape makes some of those cheap flaky CDs' lifespans look pretty bad.