I remember paying $15,000 for removable 25 MB Ibm Disk Cartridges for our IBM 370 at my place of employ in the late 70s. Things looked like the original Star Trek enterprise. Thought that was the greatest thing in the world! I would come in at midnight, copy a cartridge to another cart, upgrade DOSVM on the copy and know that all it took was a quick yank to fall back. It also was very handy in the bomb threat, we could grab those suckers and run for the hills with no problems at all!
Ah the good ole days, Neal Campbell Abroham Neal Software www.abrohamnealsoftware.com (540) 242 0911 Amateur Radio: K3NC Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ DXBase bug reports: email to [email protected] Abroham Neal forums: http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ On Tue, Jan 5, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Tony - KD4K <[email protected]> wrote: > > If you watch Fry's Electronics sales you can do better. > I purchased a 1TB external (USB) Seagate drive from Fry's > For $69.95 about 2 weeks ago. I have a local Fry's, don't > Know what the online prices are. > > I remember giving $350.00 for 30MB internal Seagate drives. > Had 2 of them on my first IBM type computer and swore that > I would never need more drive space than that. > > 73 de Tony, KD4K > Happy New Year > > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] > On Behalf Of Bill Parry > Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 11:20 PM > Cc: 'DXBase List' > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Backup backup backup > > My son tells me that there is a real nice way of keeping your computer > backed up. It is called RAID. He tells me that if you know how, you can > set > up a second drive and it will be a complete duplicate of your boot drive. > If the C drive goes down, then the Raid drive takes over and boots up. This > seems to me to be much better than a backup or mirror, because if you lose > your drive you are still in business. I saw a WD 500 Gig drive for about > $50...now I have got to get some smart guy to set up the RAID for me. > > Yes I understand if you get a lightning strike you may lose both drives but > there is always some risk in life isn't there. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] > On Behalf Of Peter Dougherty > Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 6:56 PM > To: 'Neal Campbell'; 'FireBrick' > Cc: 'DXBase List' > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Backup backup backup > > Great minds, eh! I hadn't seen your reply when I posted my message with the > same information! > > ----------------------------------- > > Regards, > > Peter, > W2IRT > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] > On Behalf Of Neal Campbell > Sent: Wednesday, December 30, 2009 7:50 PM > To: FireBrick > Cc: DXBase List > Subject: Re: [Dxbase] Backup backup backup > > I do not know how many of you are aware of a very nice program/service > called Dropbox. The software sets up a folder on your hard drive and > anything you put in it is file transferred to the Dropbox servers in the > background. Any computer you install the program on (and it can handle > Windows and Mac OS X systems) will get a copy of that folder. Its amazingly > quick. I can drop a file (or update a file in the dropbox folder), walk > downstairs and its already there on my computers downstairs. > > You get 2 GB of storage free (I believe) which is one humongous logfile! > > Give it a try, I use it to back up almost everything (including the source > code for DXBase!) > > > Neal Campbell > Abroham Neal Software > www.abrohamnealsoftware.com > (540) 242 0911 > > Amateur Radio: K3NC > Blog: http://www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/blog/ > DXBase bug reports: email to [email protected] Abroham Neal forums: > http:/www.abrohamnealsoftware.com/community/ > > > > > > On Wed, Dec 30, 2009 at 6:07 PM, FireBrick <[email protected]> wrote: > > > I know it's too late to help you...but the best thing you can ever do.... > > backup your .mdb files. > > > > And DXBase has a way to do it for you.... > > > > Got to the DXBase Program group > > Select the DXB Utility option > > Select File Backup from the left side choices. > > > > I use a stick drive J:\DXBASE > > You want to save all your .mdb files... > > > > It isn't hard, but you must do it manualy. > > I tried to have Windows Scheduler but didn't seem to work right. > > > > Now there are some cheap even free, automatic offsite backup systems. > > > > Trust me, I've lost my stuff, backups saved my ...butt! > > > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you > > turn down the volume on the radio? > > ---------------------------------------------------------- > > TOWER/WEBCAMS and Weather Page > > @ http://hhweather.webhop.org > > > > ______________________________________________________________ > > Dxbase mailing list > > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email > > list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > > ______________________________________________________________ > Dxbase mailing list > Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase > Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm > Post: mailto:[email protected] > > This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net > Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html > ______________________________________________________________ Dxbase mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/dxbase Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:[email protected] This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html
