On Sunday, 26 December 2021 18:43:58 IST Steve Litt wrote:
> borissh1...@gmail.com said on Sun, 26 Dec 2021 10:58:11 +0200
>
> >working long term backup that you do not need to update is a myth,
>
> That's for sure. I have Qic tapes with proprietary format, Zip disks
> with no Zip drive, and
borissh1...@gmail.com said on Sun, 26 Dec 2021 10:58:11 +0200
>working long term backup that you do not need to update is a myth,
That's for sure. I have Qic tapes with proprietary format, Zip disks
with no Zip drive, and Kaypro floppies to prove it. The hot tip is to
move to the next *widely
Maybe backup your files on the cloud - S3, Google Cloud, Linode. But also
there I don't know what will happen in 50 or 500 years.
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On Sun, Dec 26, 2021 at 11:03 AM wrote:
> On Saturday, 25 December 2021 3:22:22 IST Steve Litt wrote:
> > said on Sat, 25 Dec 2021 03:13:54
On Saturday, 25 December 2021 3:22:22 IST Steve Litt wrote:
> said on Sat, 25 Dec 2021 03:13:54 +0200
>
> >Until this thread I didn't even know there was such a thing as 8"
> >diskettes. My first computer was an Apple IIe with 5.25" diskettes
> >(from 1983). I used 3.5" diskettes too and disk on
