16 May
2005
16 May
'05
10:29 a.m.
Ok Al, about where do you rate yourself.
Tough question.. I have WAAAAAY too much stuff right now. I made the
decision about five years ago to get rid of all of my paper by scanning
it and donating it to the CHM. The first part mostly happened, but getting
rid of the paper didn't and now I have 10x the paper that I did five years
ago.
I have decided to dispose of a LOT of what I currently have. There is one
meta project, the preservation of documentation and software that has to
guide what I keep and what I get rid of. Since I don't beleive in using
old systems for the recovery of old data, many of the machines I have could
go.
The physical mechanisms that are necessary (like disc and tape drives) will
stay, interfaced to more modern harware.
16 May
16 May
1:51 p.m.
Al Kossow wrote:
Since I don't beleive in using
old systems for the recovery of old data,
Why?
(I feel the opposite, as what better system to get the data than the system it
was designed for? I'd like to hear your opinion.)
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2:17 p.m.
> Since I don't believe in using old systems for
the recover of old data
Why?
Not answering for Al, but for myself: if you do recover the old
data without using the old system, then you've demonstrated a very
good understanding of all the encodings and steps needed.
as what better system to get the data than the system
it was designed for?
Having access to the original system is indeed very good for verifying
that you have done the job properly.
Tim.
2:25 p.m.
From: <shoppa_classiccmp at trailing-edge.com>
Sent: Monday, May 16, 2005 4:17 PM
There is no single answer, sometimes all you have are the media without a
working system.
Randy
www.s100-manuals.com
> Since I
don't believe in using old systems for the recover of old data
Why?
Not answering for Al, but for myself: if you do recover the old
data without using the old system, then you've demonstrated a very
good understanding of all the encodings and steps needed.
as what better system to get the data than the
system it was designed
for?
Having access to the original system is indeed very good for verifying
that you have done the job properly.
Tim.
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