[ale] a moment of silence please

Paul Cartwright ale at pcartwright.com
Wed Apr 28 09:34:32 EDT 2010


On Wed April 28 2010, Lightner, Jeff wrote:
> 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".

if you take the disks out of the jackets you can fit more of them in there :)

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Paul Cartwright
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