Re: SDT 386+

Hello Jim,


A year ago I wrote all my 5-1/4" stuff off onto CD's, fearing that day
when the 5-1/4"drive wouldn't spin up ;-)


I went through that process but in 'low-tech' mode 15 years ago, making 3-1/2" working copies. But it's good policy to keep an additional spare 5-1/4" drive in the closet. You never know. Once at a client we had to dig out really old field simulations. Luckily they weren't on a 8" floppy as they initially thought but 5-1/4". Whew. And they had a DOS machine. We just had to rummage a bit to find it.

You can always send it off for copy but that can cost a couple days.

I find the 'modern' storage media less than adequate. Writing CD-RW as random drives doesn't always work, writing onto a CD-R takes forever and recently a USB stick that I thought was the silver bullet caused the PC to do a hard freeze, several times.

Regards, Joerg

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