You think YOU are suprised? Well, if you were to have
open up a system
to find the CPU in fragments, and between the fragments be a dust
Do you mean the CPU chip, the PCB substrate, or what?
[...]
a Arkanoid disk (duct tape over the floppy HD hole,
anyone? Instant 800k
disk!)
Oh not _again_. There is a real difference between DD and HD disks. The
coercivity of the media _is_ different. Sure, for 3.5" disks it's
close, and may work in most cases, but none-the-less I am not going to
risk my data that way... The cost of a the media is a lot less than my
time in recreating said data (or even restoring it from a backup).
-tony