[ale] a moment of silence please

[Lightner, Jeff]

PC7300 - I worked at a company that made software for hotels and we had
installed those at Harvey Hotels (Leona Helmsley ran them at the time)
running SCO Xenix 1.x

We had the sites run tar backups to floppy (5.25" via a script we'd
written).  One of the funniest things ever was the day we had to reload
a site's data.   The l'user at the site was walked through starting the
restore script and the first floppy and then instructed to put in each
successive floppy when prompted.   About 5 minutes later he calls back
and says "I've been able to get 4 floppies in there but can't fit any
more".

-----Original Message-----
From: ale-bounces at ale.org [mailto:ale-bounces at ale.org] On Behalf Of Paul
Cartwright
Sent: Wednesday, April 28, 2010 6:22 AM
To: Atlanta Linux Enthusiasts - Yes! We run Linux!
Subject: Re: [ale] a moment of silence please

On Wed April 28 2010, Chris Woodfield wrote:
> I see your loading Windows 3.1 from floppies and raise you multiple
> installs of Microsoft Office 5.1(?) for Mac - I think there were at
least
> 30 floppy disks in the box. And Windows 95 clocked in at 15 disks?

back in the late 80's, when we were installing AT&T UNIX PC7300's.. the 
install was 20-something floppies.. BACKUPs would get to 60+ floppies..
never 
did see a backup that ever restored without having at least ONE bad
floppy..

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Paul Cartwright
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