On Wed, 25 Jul 2001, David Freeman wrote:
MyBBC still works as does my 386's. Bear in mind that these days we are pushing the laws of physics more and more to the limit that things will fail more. Perhaps I should buy a backup device at the same time.
It shouldn't be down to the laws of physics though, I have more of a complaint on overall quality seems to be declining and it is difficult to buy anything that is going to last more than a few years if it is based on intel hardware. I have noticed that out of all the machines at Zeus only the intel ones ever had hardware problems, all of the Sparcs, Alphas, HP9000s etc were perfectly OK.
Do you not already own a CD-R drive? this should be adequate for most peoples backup needs. I must get around to writing a script that will back things up though as I am too lazy to run them manually!
Adam