Waste of moneyI once paid a small fortune to a solicitor in a legal case. She got lost on the way to court, turned up late with the wrong papers and started an argument with the judge, who told her to "shut up, for the love of God". A stunning investment.
Thanks to golddust for the suggestion
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About 10 years agoI was slowly building up a collection of files I wanted to make sure were backed up. My last back up used 103 floppy disks. double-sided double density 720k disks that I had previously used for the Amiga.
I wasn't going through all that again, so I bought a used internal Jaz drive and 3 cartridges off ebay for £70. These fuckers held 1Gb. Huzzah!
I didn't know at the time, but the cartridges are essentially the platters from a hard drive and the drive is the read mechanism. A good idea it seemed, though thinking back I could've bought a 3Gb hdd for less than £70 anyway.
One of the cartridges didn't work and the others were not very well either. It never really worked properly as I had to go out and buy a cheap second-hand scsi card for it.
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