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Hello Wayne - 

WC>>> I'm leaving Windows behind so it won't be an issue for me.
WC>>>  

->> The probability that you will continue to read/write to
->> FAT12 floppies is high. Even though people like to complain
->> about Microsoft and poke fun at DOS it is very much in use,
->> exists in the vicinity of almost every home computer and
->> will for the foreseeable future. :-) 

WC> You've a point there. As I'm running ramdrive I keep a
WC> floppy with e-mail addresses, bookmarks and such in the A:
WC> drive and it's formatted DOS. 

DOS is "The Ghost in the Machine" that people take for granted
and often are unaware of. :-) 

WC> If the power drops I cp those files after mounting the
WC> floppy then import them. 

WC> So far I've always remembered to umount. 

There is a 'trick' to avoid forgetting to do that (an alias or
bash scripted thing?) but it's on my other computer 140 miles
from here right now. 

WC> Approaching six weeks up without a hard drive or reboot!!! 

Same uptime here. :-)

Would've been longer but when shutting off the monitor's power
I accidently pushed the OFF switch for the CPU instead a few
weeks ago. :-( 

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