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- From: russotto@eng.umd.edu (Matthew T. Russotto)
- Subject: Re: stupid floppy tricks
- Message-ID: <1992Nov15.193916.28167@eng.umd.edu>
- Date: Sun, 15 Nov 92 19:39:16 GMT
- Organization: Project GLUE, University of Maryland, College Park
- References: <RATINOX.92Nov12111840@splinter.coe.northeastern.edu> <3803@creatures.cs.vt.edu> <8311@public.BTR.COM>
- Keywords: archaic storage desparate measures
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- In article <8311@public.BTR.COM> rem@public.BTR.COM (Robert E. Maas rem@btr.com) writes:
- >I think it's somewhat foolish to modify floppy drives to use more than
- >the standard number of tracks. Why? Well, you may think it's fine for
- >your personal backups, even though you lose the ability to trade your
- >floppies with friends, but someday your drive may fail and you may have
- >to replace it with another, and suddenly YOU won't be able to read all
- >those extra-track floppies you had all your backups on.
-
- Answer to objection #1) Make sure your friends with computers are
- also hackers
- Answer to objection #2) So you modify the new drive too. And if you
- can't do it, what kind of hacker are you, anyway?
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- Matthew T. Russotto russotto@eng.umd.edu russotto@wam.umd.edu
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