DIY Techno-hacksOld hard drive platters make wonderfully good drinks coasters - they look dead smart and expensive and you've stopped people reading your old data into the bargain.
Have you taped all your remotes together, peep-show-style? Have you wired your doorbell to the toilet? What enterprising DIY have you done with technology?
Extra points for using sellotape rather than solder.
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chthonic, Thu 20 Aug 2009, 12:30)
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you do realisethat tapes are still current technology. As a backup/archival medium they are far superior to the alternatives in the important respects. They have a longer life span, are resistant to being dropped, are compact...
Long live the tape!
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Sextant goes to him is emotionally erect, on this day, Sun 23 Aug 2009, 4:25,
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That is as maybeBut not for daily current data backups. My 1 meg flash drive has so far lasted me over a year. We're not talking about big files. Xx
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