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Are we too dependant on PCs?
DaOld Man:
By PC I mean personal computer, be it mac or PC or timex sinclair 1000tx or C64 or....
Anyway, my computer failed to start. Got the old "bad data from disk read" (or something similar) error on boot.
First thing you say is "Oh no... what did I do to deserve this?"
I have 4 VB6 projects Ive been working on, a ton of pictures and my checkbook on this thing!
And to beat it all, I havent backed up anything in probably 6 months (Bad daold man bad boy!!)
Well, I had the pc out of my arcade machine to do some updating with mala etc, so I am now using it.
I took the hard drive out of the downed soldier and put it in this one as a slave.
After several attempts, I got the hard drive to spin, so I immediately copied everything (I think) over to the new soldier.
So I think Im ok.
My other computer is still down. I have another drive in it that I use for extra storage.
I have my checkbook on it.
In a jukebox thread, it was mentioned how much was paid for some laminate. I wanted to go look up how much I paid, and guess what! Checkbook is on the other drive!
Now I got to take it out and hook it up to this one.
Anyway, I was thinking, how in the world did I get to this?
It really wasnt that long ago that I didnt even know what a computer was, now it seems my very life is stored in one.
And also, Ive got to get my arcade back up!!
Is it time we got back to the basics of life?
Only if we can still play mame right?
Blanka:
I had my life stored in the basement, and when cleaning the house, I could bring most boxes straight to recycling. Mould had taken over my possessions. Don't know what is worse. Unreadable bits or smelly falling apart paper? The idea of a box with the dearest memories, replaced by a digital vault with the dearest bits and bytes is perfect OK for me. Only problem: sort all the digital crap out and reduce it to the essence.
csa3d:
I've had numerous hard drives fail and even laptops with tax spreadsheets stolen once. I've always been able to recover the data thus far, but it is never a fast nor fun process. I'm pretty close to biting the bullet and getting a mirrored raid capable NAS backup server, and only putting the important docs on it through network drives. Every time I encounter these issues though, I ask myself why I have made life so complicated as well. I think computer data storage is a must in this time and age though.
I think of it this way, if it wasn't lost on a computer, you could loose it to fire, tornado, or mold like blanka says.
-csa
richms:
I make gmail accounts to back important things up to that are documents etc - just configure it as imap in outlook, and then make a new post in the folder, attach the files, and save it.
Can get it via web or outlook in the future. Just watch the pst file size when doing it - over a couple of gigs and outlook starts to sulk...
leapinlew:
My computer told me I'm not too dependent on it. So, I'm good.
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