Re: Engineering Archaeology
Jim Kinney via Ale <[email protected]>
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You just nailed it. Crayon THE backup tool Hahahaha!!! -- James P. Kinney III Every time you stop a school, you will have to build a jail. What you gain at one end you lose at the other. It's like feeding a dog on his own tail. It won't fatten the dog. - Speech 11/23/1900 Mark Twain *http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/ <http://heretothereideas.blogspot.com/>* On Tue, Jan 13, 2026, 6:42 PM Steve Litt via Ale <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Sat, 10 Jan 2026 14:39:21 -0500 (EST) > "jon.maddog.hall--- via Ale" <[email protected]> wrote: > > > One of my fears about e-books, the web and documentation that can > > disappear as easy as "rm -r *", is that we will lose a LOT of this > > information and not know where we came from and how we got here. > > Good backups allay that fear. What I fear is that over time current > physical and software formats are replaced and disappear. I can't read > my QIC tape backups anymore. I can no longer read my cptools floppy > backups: Hell, I don't currently have a floppy drive installed. With > cases no longer accommodating CD/DVD/BluRay, how long will it be until > those become very difficult to get. I have nothing to read my old VHS > video tapes. I have no way to recover any files from my ancient Kaypro > 2x, even if I did have a floppy drive. > > It's very important to take old backups and convert some of them to > newer formats every once in a while. > > LOL, I still have a crayon picture I drew in 1955 of my trip to the zoo. > > SteveT > > Steve Litt > Featured book: Troubleshooting Techniques of the Successful > Technologist http://www.troubleshooters.com/techniques > > _______________________________________________ > Ale mailing list > [email protected] > https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale > See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at > http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo > _______________________________________________ Ale mailing list [email protected] https://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale See JOBS, ANNOUNCE and SCHOOLS lists at http://mail.ale.org/mailman/listinfo