Whither the ide-tape module

[Rick Stevens]

Bob McClure Jr wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 28, 2005 at 02:15:14PM -0800, Rick Stevens wrote:
> 
>><a great deal of snippage>
>>
>>Heheheh!  No, I'm not going down RAM road.  I just am loathe to toss out
>>ancient but working hardware.  There have been a number of times where
>>people have hunted me down to recover data because I still had the only
>>functional so-and-so they knew of.  You should see the collection of,
>>umh, "classic" stuff I have laying about.
>>
>>About six months ago, a chap I used to work with at JPL sent me two
>>9-tracks of data he needed.  I got the data off and onto CD for him.
>>Turned out it was some stress analysis data from Apollo 10 that they
>>wanted to compare against the failure data for Columbia.  Don't ask me
>>why 30-odd-year-old data was relevant, but they wanted it and I had the
>>system with a 9-track and CD burner that he knew worked reliably.
> 
> 
> Hmm.  Maybe I should forward this to my wife as justification for some
> of this antique stuff I keep around.  Change her mind?  I should live
> so long.

It's an upside of still being a bachelor, Bob.  The downside is that
I'll probably remain a bachelor since no woman wants this stuff around.
They want their own chotchkies (sp?), not mine.

Can you say "Catch-22"?  <Sigh!>
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