Gustav Brock
Gustav at cactus.dk
Fri Mar 5 08:53:09 CST 2010
Hi Arthur Yes, FastBack was used a lot and some others as well, even Microsoft had a util (MSBackup?) for a similar purpose. Your alternative was a tape station. I recall a 40 MB tape drive in a Compaq 386 server, a machine with a ~10k USD price tag. But I can beat those. In the days of the shareware libraries you could order diskettes with all sorts of utils. Once I received one with a util, Vdisk I think, which emulated a harddisk on floppy disks! That was, you could stack up, say, 20 HD disks of 1.2 MB to emulate a 24 MB harddisk. As you read from or wrote to the emulated harddisk, the util would ask you to insert the disk which contained the data for the part of the "harddisk" you accessed. Even for those days this was weird but it worked - I tried it but for fun only. /gustav >>> fuller.artful at gmail.com 05-03-2010 15:31 >>> 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