[geeks] Cheap/reliable backup?

Lionel Peterson lionel4287 at gmail.com
Tue Dec 3 06:47:38 CST 2013


That was a long, long time ago...

Win95 took some 20 floppies to install just the OS, that exceeds any practical
limit for a reasonable backup on floppies.

We used to backup floppies onto other floppies, and early home users did
selective backups to floppies from their massive 10-20 meg HDs in their Mac
Plus an PC/AT...

Lionel

> On Dec 3, 2013, at 2:02 AM, microcode at zoho.com wrote:
>
> Absolutely. And backup media hasn't kept pace with data storage either. We
> used to be able to backup a PC with floppies. Now look at us.


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