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- From: nmouawad@waterloo.edu (Naji Mouawad)
- Newsgroups: comp.os.os2.apps
- Subject: Re: Floppy Backup, Re: 32bit Shareware backup program.
- Message-ID: <NMOUAWAD.92Jul26163025@math.waterloo.edu>
- Date: 26 Jul 92 20:30:25 GMT
- References: <1992Jul22.172317.26801@njitgw.njit.edu>
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- <1992Jul24.181218.8896@njitgw.njit.edu>
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- Organization: University of Waterloo
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- In-Reply-To: dic5340@hertz.njit.edu's message of 24 Jul 92 18: 12:18 GMT
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- In article <1992Jul24.181218.8896@njitgw.njit.edu> dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) writes:
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- In article <92205.132615ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET>
- ASI509@DJUKFA11.BITNET writes:
- >In article <1992Jul22.172317.26801@njitgw.njit.edu>,
- dic5340@hertz.njit.edu (David Charlap) says:
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- >>emloyee's time. With a tape drive, the employee has merely to insert
- >>a tape, start the backup, and go to lunch (or home for the evening).
- >
- >I think we all hope OS/2 will not only be a company OS but will make it
- >to the desktop of the home user. For the cost of a tape drive I can buy
- >about 1 Gigabyte of floppies in Germany. I have no employee who does my
- >backup so this is irrelevant to me. I definitely want a _good_ floppy
- >backup program.
-
- Well, I am looking to buy a tape drive for my home OS/2 system as soon
- as I find one that will work with my ISA 386 machine. I can't stand
- sitting by the computer for two hours inserting floppies all night to
- make a backup. One good 150MB tape system would solve all my
- problems...
-
- I may not be getting paid for it, but my time at home is valuable
- enough that I don't want to waste it in front of the computer.
-
-
-
- It so often happens that solutions thought useful and practical turns
- out to be outdated. I do wonder whether it would be worthwile to wait
- for the new disk-drives which would read and write diskettes of up to
- 22 megs or so. Backing-up would then requiere no added hardware ...
-
-
- naji.
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