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I had this same thought before Y2K. All the hype around it I wondered if there’s tech stashed away somewhere safe and out of reach from global catastrophes like EMPs or other types of world events. I can guarantee governments have tech stashed somewhere on earth or in space. It’s the most logical way to ensure in an event like that, that those governments can restart and be ahead of everyone else in that event.

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I had my large box of older microelectronics wrapped in some layers of aluminum foil to make a fun postapo party thingy. Still have it wrapped. There's hundreds of CPUs there, few full PC computers, hard drives and CDs with Windows XP, Linux and DOS, and a lot of microcontrollers + related components.

Don't scavenge raid me please, I am open to trade.

That's a very optimistic outlook after it was revealed what preparations had been taken to deal with a global pandemic, a risk scenario that at least every country had a playbook for.

I just think it is not possible to meaningfully prepare for a once-in-a-century event. You simply cannot sustain significant budgets for such scenarios.

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