3 Nov
2010
3 Nov
'10
1:30 p.m.
On 2 Nov 2010 at 17:25, Ethan Dicks wrote:
I am seriosulyt worried by the fact that a group of programmers who are
capable of writing a compiler didn't realise the value of backups. I
can't beklieve tht nobody had ever lost data before.
-tony
That's the tried-and-true way of reading a
diskette that's had Coke
spilled on it. After the world switched to 3.5" floppies, doing these
sorts of things (mostly) faded into the mists.
Years ago, my little group using an Intel MDS-800 finished up a
compiler project way ahead of schedule. Management was so impressed
that they had T-shirts printed up and threw us a party, complete with
(really cheap) champagne. (I still have the T-shirt, but it doesn't
fit me anymore.)
We had the source code 8" floppies on a little shrine sort of display
so better to appreciate what we'd done. And no, we didn't have a
master backup of the thing, although we might have been able to
recreate it with bits from various people's private copies.