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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
Back ups have to be kept up to date with current technology.
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That was the point. You can't rely on being able to open file saved 20 years ago.
The Zip drive I have used wasn't for reading MY backup. It was more or less a means of communication with a very old PC with DOS installed. The "path of least resistance" for loading that PC with a new version of SCADA/HMI screens was connecting a Zip drive. It already had driver installed on disk so I could save very valuable time. You have to finish work while the production line is being repaired.
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Originally Posted by Lady Fitzgerald
Be careful saying not a single computer used now will be working 15 years from now. I have an old Commodore C64c that still works.
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Well, my C64 is still in working order, now that I think about it. I am not so sure about those cassette tapes with pirated games ;-) They were saved in Turbo mode, so I could load 64kilobyte game under 3 minutes, not like losers that didn't have Turbo and had to spend 15 minutes loading game. Oh, those sweet memories. Even that nostalgia isn't what it used to be.
I was never able to to save enough money to purchase disk drive for my C64. But even 20 years ago it was difficult to get floppy disk that would work in that one-sided 170KB disk drive. Those new-fangled SD and HD 5¼" disks (600 and 1200 KB) didn't work in
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