Me after initial compile of new software I’d written:
Wow. There are fewer errors than I expected!
@feloneouscat Just last week I was trying to rescue a flaky partition -- 4TB of tennis games.... not sure that the new message brought any more relief though... lol
One word: backup.
I have a 5 TB drive (and a git server) for my development. Also, hard drives do not last more than 2-3 years at best.
@feloneouscat Not enough resources to back up a 6TB drive.. lol and yes this drive has been going about 5 years now. The other 6TB internal is also pretty full...
I do have all other data, esp DTP data backed up, but that many tennis games....no
Yikes!
I’m looking into replacing my three 2 TB SD drives (and 5 TB hard drive backup) with four 4 TB SD drives (two drives for original and two for backup of the original).
It’s a chunk of change but it would REALLY be nice to not have the whine of a hard drive.
That happens next year after 4 TB drops below $200.
@feloneouscat A little memory lane... I remember buying a 2-GB SCSI drive for US1400.00 ($2800.00 BDS our currency).. and now, gargantuan TB drives for spit!! lol
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@Pat_Walrond @feloneouscat First HD I bought was a Seagate Wren 20MB and cost me just under $900. (First and most expensive)
@Lucky188 @Pat_Walrond @feloneouscat Now I can't remember if my first hard drive was 20MB or 40MB. Whatever it was, not having to change floppy disks all the time changed my whole life!
My parents gave me that and a monochrome VGA monitor (with a graphics card) for Christmas one year. It was quite the gift!
A while back I was reflecting on the difference in physical size between the typical 20MB hard-drive of the early 90s and a 128GB micro-SD card.
@Lucky188 @feloneouscat @Pat_Walrond Oh, yeah, my uncle had an old Atari with a tape drive. That was painful!
So many times I'd pull a tape out, cue it up, and wait for the game to load and realise that I'd accidentally loaded one I had no intention of playing. I'd play it anyway because I'd invested so much time in loading it, and didn't want my whole day to be spent just loading games.
@sumpnlikefaith @Pat_Walrond @feloneouscat Yeah helped if had a tape counter on the tape player and wrote counter numbers on cassette, but only worked if rewound reset counter and FF'd to what you wanted with the hope it would load in less than 3 tries.
1/2 C64 Cassette
@sumpnlikefaith 🤣 🤣 Been there, done that with my C64... first one was given to me by the brother of a work colleague... he got a new one and kept his drive, so at first I had no storage anything... he would bring over his drive and load Elite on it, and I couldn't turn it off because then I'd have to wait for him to come over and load it again. Then I got a cassette tape, and you could start loading, go and have dinner and a shower and come back.
2/2 C64 Cassette
I used to buy every C64 magazine I could get my hands on and type out a lot of those games, basic and machine.... oh the bliss of sitting typing out a zillion lines of 00 FF F7. Fortunately I got my hands on one of those machine code checker progs.
And of course the other thing was to remember to take note of where you started to record on the cassette, otherwise God help you trying to find where the prog started...
@Lucky188 @feloneouscat
@sumpnlikefaith @feloneouscat @Pat_Walrond Floppies, they made life so easy after using a cassette tape drive for so long.🤣