On Mon, Feb 03, 2014 at 03:45:43PM -0500, John Mikes wrote: > Russell wrote Jan 26: > > .*.We must make sure we have backups this time!*. > > How about on paper? E.g. hard copies, like in a millennia-old * L I B R A R > Y ? * > *John Mikes* > >
That's funny - I used to use paper backup copies in my early years of computing (think Z80 processor running CP/M with floppy disks), and even, on occasion, having to restore from them. I once loaded an APL interpreter from printed source code, which took a couple of weeks - particular to get it working! Restoring my laptop from a paper backup would now take several centuries, or require a sizable army of typists, even using OCR... not so useful. The only backup/archive that works is "spinning disk" - a backup that is copied to the current used media at all times. I'm in the process now of transferring my CD/DVDRom collection to spinning disk - only just in time I suspect. Cheers -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Prof Russell Standish Phone 0425 253119 (mobile) Principal, High Performance Coders Visiting Professor of Mathematics [email protected] University of New South Wales http://www.hpcoders.com.au ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Everything List" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/everything-list. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
