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From: ANTant@zimage.com (Ant)
Subject: Re: Cloning a 2.5" IDE/PATA Laptop Hard drive
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Some Guy  wrote:
> james@nospam.com, while using improper usenet message composition style 
> by unnecessarily full-quoting, wrote:

> > I just bought Norton Ghost 2003 on ebay for $10 shipped.

> Turns out that wasn't necessary.  See my previous post.

Heh. I remember that product. ;) Too bad Symantec killed off its 
consumer Ghost products and bought PowerQuest (no more DriveImage). :(

> > Back in the 90s, a person could get any commercial software on
> > the web, but that is no longer the case.

> Um, yes, that is still pretty much the case.

> I couldn't imagine trying to do it, though, on a dial-up connection.

I did, but tedious. ;)


> Back in the late 1980's and early 1990's I had a dial-up connection to a 
> university server (Silicon Graphics machine).  From there I would do FTP 
> to wustl and other servers to get software.

Heh. I used to do those too. My favorite was ftp.cdrom.com for 
sharewares, playable demos, and DOOM addons!
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