Redundant technologyMusic on vinyl records, mobile phones the size of house bricks and pornography printed on paper. What hideously out of date stuff do you still use?
Thanks to boozehound for the suggestion
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 4 Nov 2010, 12:44)
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I was worried about losing all my data from my early Uni daysso i backed it up on zip disks. I consider those files forever lost.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 11:35, 6 replies)
We were encoraged to use Zip disks at uni. I went out and bought a load of 250mb zipsthe drives only accepted 100mb ones :(
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Peej, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 12:14,
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^Both of these^Sad sad future proofing error. I miss the floppy disk's overweight cousin.
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number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:04,
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i have a zip drive reader, but no disksnot sure if it works but you can have it if you want it. I'll leave it under a tree in London in a brown bag.
(, Fri 5 Nov 2010, 13:13, closed)
I have many of my first consultancy reports I ever wrote out of uni on zip disks.Files lost forever.
(, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 4:32, closed)
Lost? Really?(looks around at the half dozen or so Zip drives kicking about in the workshop)
shop.ebay.co.uk/?_nkw=zip+drive
Fixed that for you.
(, Sat 6 Nov 2010, 9:32, closed)
I have a 250MB Zip drive in the machine I am using right now.The machine also has a Q6600 and 4GB RAM.
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idonthaveafunnynickname Drink-Aware? Sure. I'm aware I want another drink., Mon 8 Nov 2010, 1:06,
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