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To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (11058)	1/22/2000 8:56:00 AM
From: Green Receipt	Respond to of 32883

on one of my old computers, the data was absolutely critical so I cut 5 CD's. Then we made a 2300 mile move. The machine survived the move, but later died of old age. Luckily I still have the CDs... One of the CD's has among other things, the source code to my retail software.

To: Cheeky Kid who wrote (11058)	1/22/2000 11:26:00 AM
From: SI Bob	Respond to of 32883

I feel your pain Uncle (Bob), but I enjoy rebuilding my hard drive the odd time I'm reminded of a line from the Weird Al song, "It's All About the Pentiums". Something about defragging your drive for fun. I used to spend a lot of time with XtreeGold, re-organizing and tweaking; making sure there wasn't a single file on my machine that didn't need to be there and everything backed up. Always enjoyed doing that. Windoze95 makes it a bit tougher, especially with the registry involved. My 95 registry is a 4-year accumulation, so it's a mess. I was intending to build up a 98 drive from scratch anyway because of it. Last time I saved my registry to a text file, it was over 6 meg. And anytime I'd use a program that's supposed to trim it down, it'd grow instead. Right now I've got Windoze98 reinstalled and just downloaded the software for my tape drive. I like to have backups on hard drives for quick access, but this time I'll back up to tape first, then restore to an archive directory on my hard drive. I'd also put it on CDs, but that'd take about 12 disks. Which reminds me of a question (which, in itself, reminds me of another): Is there a DVD-RAM standard out we can count on for the future finally? Drives gotten reasonably-priced yet? And the question that reminds me of, is there a thread more appropriate to this dialogue? Bob PS. I'm kinda excited about finally moving to 98 (yeah, I know 2000 should be out soon). Multiple monitors. Internet access sharing. Can't wait to try those out. PPS. Yeah, I like to live in the past in software. Upgrading to 98 in 2000; upgraded to 95 in 96; upgraded to DesqView/X as soon as it came out, though. Moving from DV to Windoze was like finally admitting defeat... I still use WP51/DOS, though.