Re: can I use Apple II with a vga/dvi monitor? how to get software?

[scott@alfter.DIESPAMMERSDIE.us (Scott Alfter)]

In article <f7hqr1$1evm$1@merope.saaf.se>,
Paul Schlyter <pausch@saaf.se> wrote:
>Tape backup was the norm back then, true, and it wasn't terribly cheap
>either.  But how much did that lost month of work due to that bad
>crash cost?
>
>There was one fairly cheap backup medium, available already in 2000,
>though: the Zip disk, which could hold some 100 MBytes of data (later
>250 MBytes).  If that was too small, you had the Jaz disk which held
>one GByte of data.  In 1998 when I got a new personal PC, I put a Zip
>disk into that machine (floppy backups were just too tedious).
>
>Of course, one can also adopt the "macho style" and yell:  "You're a
>coward if you take backups!!!"  <g>

How do you "take" a backup?  Don't you have to make a backup first before
you can take it anywhere? 

That said, you could follow Linus Torvalds' example:

"Only wimps use tape backup: real men just upload their important stuff on
ftp, and let the rest of the world mirror it."

:-)

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