> Its unlikely that much of OS/2 2.0 was written in assembly language.
OS/2 2.0 had a good bit of assembly. The effort for OS/2 3.0 Warp—particularly for PM, the window manager—included rewriting the original 16-bit assembler into C, so we could recompile as a 32-bit OS.
Because some communities have no grid access, especially in e.g. India the utilities never found it profitable to build power lines out to outlying communities. Now those communities can have their own reliable (and clean!) power source, no grid connection required.
With distributed generation the main grid can go away in many places.
Shuttle is large. It's meant to haul a huge amount of cargo, plus seven people. Definitely jaw-droppingly worth doing is visiting an Apollo rocket, say the one at NASA Houston. Now that's big. Then think about the size of the cargo area (3 humans) compared to the rest of the rocket. Jaw hits floor!
Put the files in gmail, Amazon S3, me.com, and a few other equivalents.
Put the userids & passwords to these accounts in your underground box (written on acid-free paper.)
With luck one of these services will still be around in 25 years.