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From: Richard Erlacher <richard(a)idcomm.com>
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Date: Friday, September 01, 2000 10:03 AM
Subject: Re: D'oh! Backup issue solved
>It's too bad there's so little functional provision for backups under
the
>currently popular OS'.
>
>Dick
???! Last I checked all of MSPOOGE dos/win3x/win9x/nt has a
backup, as do linux and freebsd. Which ones are you referring too?
Allison
On August 31, Tony Duell wrote:
> > I'm thinking I want a WES50 Weller Soldering Station, as it looks like a
> > good balance between cheapness and high-end. Of course anything would be a
>
> While I can't comment on that particular model, I'd certainly go for a
> Weller. I'm still using one of their Magnastat TCP irons, and it's never
> given me any problems.
Yes, I have a TCP here too...I got it fifteen years ago, and it was
old then! It has yet to give me any trouble...and for such a simple
mechanism, the temperature control works very well! Kudos to Weller
for making such an indestructible tool.
-Dave McGuire
<arrgh> Sometimes, the best answers are the most obvious.
You may remember that, not long ago, I posted a blurb about having trouble
backing up an old MFM drive in a 1990-vintage datascope. Specifically, that
it's non-DOS format and on a proprietary controller.
As I was copying the manuals for a different datascope this afternoon, the
answer hit me like a lightning bolt, prompted by noticing that the pages I
was copying at the time had to do with backing up the hard drive in a
Digilog unit. "Maybe" I mused "the Interview 7500 has the same capability."
Well, guess what? It did! It was not obvious because it was labeled "Copy
Disk" instead of "Backup hard drive," but it most definitely allowed
selecting the hard drive as the source and the floppy as the destination.
Three 1.44 meg floppies later, I not only had a backup copy of the
datascope's OS, but I also had it archived with Teledisk into long-term
storage.
The moral of the story is: If you run into a hard-drive operated
datascope, or any other special device that has its own drive, never assume
that said device has no backup routine of its very own! ;-)
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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 (Extra class as of June-2K)
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our
own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
At 02:28 01-09-2000 -0700, you wrote:
>Email replies only.
Oooh! Oooh! If no one else has claimed it, I will!
Thanks!
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Bruce Lane, Owner and head honcho, Blue Feather Technologies
http://www.bluefeathertech.com // E-mail: kyrrin(a)bluefeathertech.com
Amateur Radio: WD6EOS since Dec. '77 (Extra class as of June-2K)
"Our science can only describe an object, event, or living thing in our
own human terms. It cannot, in any way, define any of them..."
