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Re: Archiving disks to tape? (late 1970s)

Subject: Re: Archiving disks to tape? (late 1970s)
From: Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>
Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 22:11:15 +0200
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schmidtd wrote:

> After reading what writeups are available via Google, it sounds like
> it would be fun and easy to write.  If only it were useful today!
> Come to think of it, why would it have been useful in the day anyway?
> For archival purposes so that you could re-use diskettes, maybe.  But
> you need a physical diskette to reconstitute the data anyway...?

For archival purposes in case your disk(s) got bad?

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Linards Ticmanis

References:
- Archiving disks to tape? (late 1970s)
  - From: Linards Ticmanis <ticmanis@gmx.de>
- Re: Archiving disks to tape? (late 1970s)
  - From: Patrick Schaefer <PSchaefer@lycosxxl.de>
- Re: Archiving disks to tape? (late 1970s)
  - From: schmidtd <schmidtd@my-deja.com>

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