On 13 Jul 2001 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> Hey, I bought a disk notcher so I could double side my 5-1/4" floppy
> disks. I saved SO much money. ROFL
I saved more than you... I used an exacto knife I already had lying
around. I thought the 3.5" floppy format was a conspiracy by the disk
manufacturers. And I refused to use CDs for about 5 years... not
writable. Having the ability to load unlimited junk on your hard disk and
not be able to easily back it up. I never have been able to get a
comfortable ability to do full backups since, either. The closest we came
was a DAT tape drive, but we discovered that most of the data we backed up
on it was not readable because the heads got dirty so fast.
At this point, I only backup my data, and do a full re-install of system
or application software if it comes to that. The days of being able to
duplicate a disk (swap, swap, swap, swap...) and have an exact full
system backup are fading in my memory now.
>
> -sp
>
> On Fri, 13 July 2001, Mike Sensney wrote:
>
> >
> > At 08:37 AM 07/13/2001 -0700, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
> >
> > >On Fri, 13 Jul 2001, David Douthitt wrote:
> > >
> > >> Hilton Travis wrote:
> > >>
> > >> > Are those the 8" floppy disks?
> > >
> > >I think the 8" floppy disks never held more than 250KB at most, anyway.
> >
> > IIRC the 8" SSSD disks were 250KB in size. The 8" DSDD disks held something
> > like 800KB. A treasure trove of storage.
Hmm... well, I was using them in an antiquated old college lab, so I guess
we didn't get the good stuff.
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