Subj : Miss.RvrDamBreach-Davenpt To : Nancy Backus From : Barry Martin Date : Wed Dec 25 2019 09:34:00 Hi Nancy! BM> True: that chemical fire in Texas (?) a few weeks ago; nothing has BM> been mentioned in the past several years but there used to be talk of BM> evacuations should Cordova Nuclear up the river from here go wack-o. NB> We have Ginna Nuclear plant on the lake a little ways from us... NB> I think we were never quite in any evacuation area for that here NB> in the city, but there were definitely plans for evacuations more NB> in its vicinity... No talk recently of that either... I think NB> that the nuclear plants have shown their relative safeness over NB> the years.... Agree. I don't think anything creating/using energy is 100% safe, so always a degree of caution needed, no matter how long it has been in use. And it's possible the dangerousness of the nuclear generating facilities got mixed in with the nasty aftereffects of the nuclear bombs. ...Sort of like someone thought my lunch tote was a bomb shortly after 9/11. NB>>> Hindsight is so much more accurate than cautious foresight.... ;) NB>>> But the business computers obviously needed more capability than that NB>>> original small amount, even from early on.... :) BM>> True. As for the capacity of the business machines, probably the BM>> thinking was along the lines of mine early: was relatively easy to BM>> flip floppies ==> pull out one floppy, insert another. They did hold a BM>> lot of data, or at least by the considerations of that time. BM>> For fun a quick bit of Googling (to use activate their floppies!) BM>> 1 TB = 754297.03126098 floppy disk (3.5", HD) BM>> = 2744116.61398 5.25" DD floppies BM>> So I'd need close to three million of my old floppies. That's a lot BM>> of flipping!! NB>> Indeed....! Makes a lot of sense why larger capacity storage was NB>> developed, with tape drives, zipdisks, and all... ;) And other forms NB>> of moveable hard disks.... ;) BM> It does! Still amazes me how they pack a hard drive physical size BM> (think 3.5" HDD) now with multiple TB into a case that not that long BM> ago was MB. NB> And the thumbdrives that hold a full computer's worth.... Yes!! I think Ky was saying in another conference he has a few 300+ GB ones. I'm thinking 'overkill' but IIRC from what bits and pieces I remember of his job probably needs that size. For what I do (and that's definitely amateur level!) 16 GB thumbdrives are more than enough. ...Sent pictures from my Vienna 2019 Visit to my Aunt and Mother on 4 GB thumbdrives and have more than enough. ...Curious Kitty was purring: 992 items, totalling 756.9 MB. So approximately 1,000 photographs took less than a GB. BM>>>> Anchor a carrier in the Atlantic, run some ferries between the new BM>>>> floating airport and land.... NB>>>> Now that's a creative concept.... ;) BM>>> Once in a while I come up with something good! NB>>> Not sure how it would be implemented, though.... ;) BM>> Plus doesn't seem like it would work all that well for non-coastal BM>> sites. NB>> Just think of the mess that could happen, had there been such set NB>> up in the middle of the Mississippi River.... BM> Here we stick government facilities in the middle of the River ==> the BM> Rock Island Arsenal! NB> But that's on a fixed island, not a floating one... ;) We'd better hope it doesn't float downstream!! ¯ ® ¯ Barry_Martin_3@ ® ¯ @Q.COM ® ¯ ® .... To fix a fried modem: sautee some onion in olive oil.... --- MultiMail/Win32 v0.47 þ wcECHO 4.2 ÷ ILink: The Safe BBS þ Bettendorf, IA --- QScan/PCB v1.20a / 01-0462 * Origin: ILink: CFBBS | cfbbs.no-ip.com | 856-933-7096 (454:1/1) .