how did it begin?

  • cortesoft@alien.topB
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    1 year ago

    I mean, I am 40 now, but when I was a kid I would put tape over the punched hole on old AOL trial disks so I could write to them. I would save everything, because I worried I might need it some day.

    I have since archived those hundreds of floppies into disk images on my current computer. It is kinda cool to still have my old stuff from 30 years ago.

    • swiss_aspie@alien.topB
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      1 year ago

      I’m older and have saved most of the harddisks of computers I have had in the past. The missing harddisks either broke or were backed up on the ones I still have.

      I recently started to back them all up on the raid I have. It’s so much fun !! Each hdd reflects a period of life with emails , photos and videos (on the newer ones). I need to find a way to access the old scsi disks though. Don’t have an adapter for those yet

      Next I plan on using Google takeout to make a backup of my data in the cloud to my local raid. Similarly I have been backing up important files to the clouds. Love the redundancy !