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Originally Posted by kacir
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.
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 1541 |
I started out with the 1541 but when the 3.5" 1581s came out, I glommed onto a pair of them. I used one for my programs and the other for data. It was almost like having a hard drive after the 1541. I had to keep the 1541 because disk magazines and new software still used the 8 1/4" disks. Moving all that to the 3.5" drives was...ah...challenging at times due to early "DRM." I decided to let most of the data I had on the 3.5" disks go since it was no longer relevant to me (the few documents that were, I printed and scanned for the current generations of computers).