Doublespace created double the corruption. Everytime a client doublespaced his drive I wanted to kill him.
************************************************* 1/20/2013 Eviction Notice http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingmike/6169336 --- On Tue, 1/27/09, Geoff Flight <[email protected]> wrote: > From: Geoff Flight <[email protected]> > Subject: RE: SCSI drives and VFP data tables > To: "'ProFox Email List'" <[email protected]> > Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 6:06 PM > Actually the computer industry is replete with > 'wonderful technologies' that > died soon after. Remember doublespace for drives? I also > remember the huge > fanfare for diskless network computers and how within a few > years everybody > would have one and just load off the internet. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Michael Madigan > Sent: Wednesday, 28 January 2009 8:31 AM > To: ProFox Email List > Subject: RE: SCSI drives and VFP data tables > > I remember watching demos of those for document storage at > an Army show. > Put all your drawings, CAD Designs, scanned files on them. > They didn't last > long at all in the market place as cheaper and bigger hard > disks and CDs > became available. > > ************************************************* > 1/20/2013 Eviction Notice > > http://www.cafepress.com/rightwingmike/6169336 > > > --- On Tue, 1/27/09, Gil Hale <[email protected]> > wrote: > > > From: Gil Hale <[email protected]> > > Subject: RE: SCSI drives and VFP data tables > > To: [email protected] > > Date: Tuesday, January 27, 2009, 4:21 PM > > I bet they sold a lot to government agencies, then > abandoned > > support within > > a few months or years when it was obvious they were > doomed > > to failure. I > > saw a lot of these high capcity optical drives being > > peddled to mid-sized > > businesses. The appeal was the huge capcity, I think > just > > about 500Mg or so > > (!). One ad for these optical drives had an > advertisement > > with a tag line > > stating, "Put a fork in it, hard drives are > > done!" Well, not so fast my > > friend, soon after higher capacity HDDs came out (up > to a > > whopping 1Gb for a > > mere $800! I know, I bought one!). The > "fork" > > ended up going into the > > writeable optical drives for all but specialty > purposes > > (WORM for document > > archiving and short term storage). > > > > Gotta love progress... > > > > Gil > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: [email protected] > > > [mailto:[email protected]]on Behalf Of > Jean > > Laeremans > > > Sent: Tuesday, January 27, 2009 3:45 PM > > > To: [email protected] > > > Subject: Re: SCSI drives and VFP data tables > > > > > > > > > On Tue, Jan 27, 2009 at 6:02 PM, Gil Hale > > <[email protected]> wrote: > > > > > > Once upon a time - maybe they still exist - > there was > > something > > > called video disks which boiled down to SCSI > drives > > with the safety > > > disabled (they ran slower when they got hot) so > they > > had a limited > > > lifespan .... (mostly IBM disks if i remember > clearly) > > > > > > A+ > > > jml > > > [excessive quoting removed by server] _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
