At 11:34 AM -0800 01/08/2006, Amanda Ward wrote:
On 08/01/2006, at 9:14 AM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
(Still using his Mac IIci, with its $999 200MB HD).
Still remember my first hard drive (for a kind of machine that shall
remain unidentified!!!)... t'was a whopping =5= megabytes. Full
height, 5.25" MFM Seagate.
hum. TRS-80? IMSAI? PDP-8? :)
about '83
A glorious thing it was... till my first attempted backup. 'Bout
halfway into the 10th 360kb floppy disk, I thought "Screw THIS!"
Only 10 floppies? hum. Impatient. We were doing 120+ 9track mag
tapes, each month, for backups. (1/4 of that weekly). High-density
tape (6250bpi) was a godsend! But even then - you know the michelin
man, the cartoon guy made of white tires? That's what we looked like
walking the tapes down the hallway to the vault. Couldn't use a cart
- if we did, it would require a union mover.
Heh, even today with a 40GB DLT tape drive, backups are few and far
between. My B&W has access to about 750GB and I haven't a clue where
to start. Isn't technology wonderful?
Here at home, I never made the jump from tape (I agree with Alton
Brown - unitaskers are best left in the store). I went from using
DiskFit to write 150+ floppies to using Retrospect Express to write
ZIP and JAZ disks, then CD-R. Will be DVD-R if I can ever get this
Sony burner to work on Tiger on my B&W.
Backups have always been an afterthought, for most people, I guess.
My housemate has been burned repeatedly. He buys the big "bleeding
edge" drives then goes into a panic when they die young. I try to
get him to at least copy his important files to a different drive,
but he's usually too lazy. Oh yea, and he has three burners on that
PC currently...
- Dan.
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