Let me break it down for you, since you don't know what you are talking about. When you die, the game begins saving your information. If the computer shuts down mid-write, then the information it was writing to gets screwed up. The year the computer was made doesn't make a difference. A bad write corrupts information just as well in 2022. The only difference is hard drives are much faster so its harder to accidentally get the right timing to screw up your info.

Instead of following this braindead advice, why not just find your save file and restore the archived character? If you make a copy of the info, you've got 0 chance of messing anything up.