Your just a young'un. I remember 8" floppies, both hard and soft sectored. We used to have to change a pulley to get European drives to work in North America. There are CNC machines on our shop floor that can still read paper tape (we use an RS232 interface instead) :o)
From: Andrew S. Baker [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: April-12-13 1:28 PM To: NT System Admin Issues Subject: Re: Google Drive 5.25" floppies were the ultimate in reliability. You could put them into your pocket, folder them up, and even spill soda on them. (I recovered data from two different soda spill scenarios) I suspect that the feeble density of the data is what helped us with those, and what kills us with everything else. :) ASB http://XeeMe.com/AndrewBaker <http://xeeme.com/AndrewBaker> Providing Virtual CIO Services (IT Operations & Information Security) for the SMB market... ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
