[AccessD] OT Friday: Diskettes on the fly?

I remember a program called FastBack that I used to back up my 10MB hard
disk. LOL. It took about 50 diskettes to do a single backup. Now I'm faced
with similar problems. You know many dual-layer DVDs it takes to back up a
Terabyte? Sheesh.

Arthur

On Fri, Mar 5, 2010 at 8:53 AM, jwcolby <jwcolby at colbyconsulting.com> wrote:

> In 1997 while living down in Mexico, I gave away my collection of software
> on floppy.  Even 10 years
> ago the floppy was pretty much useless.
>
> I still keep about 20 simply because they are getting hard to buy and the
> older versions of windows
> still require them for the driver install when installing windows.  Even
> that is finally going away
> (thank goodness) with Vista and beyond.
>
> I would say they are good for making the trash heap a little bigger.
>
> John W. Colby
> www.ColbyConsulting.com
>
>