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echo: classic_computer
to: Dave Drum
from: Tony Langdon
date: 2017-03-11 06:42:00
subject: Re: Macintosh echo

-=> Dave Drum wrote to Tony Langdon <=-

 DD> Good luck with that. One of the reasons that I transferred nearly all
 DD> of my Commode Door sox to optical media or thumb drives is the
 DD> notoriously flaky media used in floppies. a stray cosmic ray can ruin
 DD> your whole disk by flipping a single vital bit.

The only real way to be safe is redundancy - multiple copies on multiple
technologies in multiple locations. :)

 TL> ... If I had a hammer, I'd get hammered in the morning.

 DD> Three quick pints of VB on an empty stomach will serve the purpose.

 TL> LOL, so true! :D

 DD> For those of you not familair with Australia - VB is Victoria Bitter -
 DD> a popular frothingslosh. And quite tasty.

Yep, not a bad drop. :)


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