Subj : contingency plans
To   : AUGUST ABOLINS
From : Jasen Betts
Date : Wed Jun 27 2001 11:34 pm

Hi AUGUST.

26-Jun-01 11:40:46, AUGUST ABOLINS wrote to JIM HANOIAN


  ->  AA> My pc crashed recently.  I hope someone else can pitch in for
  ->  AA> the time being.   (I'm accessing this "stuff" from a communal
  ->  AA> pc at the local library.) -> -> Bummer!  Certainly teaches
  the value of backups and -> contingency plans, eh?

 AA> Yeah.. but it was hard (er.. impossible) to integrate modern
 AA> backup programs and hardware onto that pc (VLB, 486/66).   Now I'm
 AA> basically forced to by a new computer so that I can use a cdrw for
 AA> backups.

Software could be a problem, but the 486 shouldn't be bothered by an IDE cdrw
drive, you could use doslinux as a base to run the writer software if you
don't want to go win-32.

 -=> Bye <=-

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