Re: Safe conlanging, was: Aaaaaargh!!!!!
| From: | H. S. Teoh <hsteoh@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, March 1, 2001, 6:08 |
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On Thu, Mar 01, 2001 at 04:50:04PM +1100, D Tse wrote:
> Ugh...I used to use Zip disks extensively but a problem embedded into many
> Iomega Zip drives called the "Click of Death" has rendered it unusable,
> potentially wiping all the data on a disk I had (which contained one of my
> primitive conlangs). I still don't know if the disk is OK because technical
> support hasn't been too helpful...
Ah yes. The infamous plague of the COD. IMNSHO, burning data to a CD is
the best means of backup. Writable CD's are cheap anyway, and it's more
durable than other media. Yes, you can't reuse it, but since it's cheap,
it's a good way to keep a historical archive of stuff you've had :-)
T
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