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Pastimes : Dream Machine ( Build your own PC ) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Zeuspaul who wrote (2757)	10/5/1998 10:56:00 PM
From: Clarence Dodge	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14778

ZP The small size is a disadvantage when compared to todays harddrives CD-R could be a possibility for my PC machine. The size is a problem, I agree. I'd like to see one of these CD-whatever drives double as a CD-Rom reader as well.. For standard full backups tape is the standard. I have never used tape backup myself. I'm using tape on my current Mac and don't like it much. Its slow and finding a specific file to restore is overly complicated IMHO. As someone mentioned once (maybe it was you?) the linear structure of tape leads one to wish for a better way. The CD RW drives show more promise for selected daily and weekly file backups. I'm trying in my reading to understand the difference between cd-r and cd-rw. Is cd-rw rewritable and cd-r permanent or is there moe to it than that? BTW I'm looking forward to the new index threads. I think its a good solution to at least try out and evolve. I imagine we'll access them via the Clubhouse (many decades since I visited a clubhouse) as well as a format for post subject titles. When I feel more confident in my understandding of PC subjects I'd like to partake in some indexing. Right now there are many areas which are still fuzzy to me. But I guess you don't neccessarily have to understand a post to know what category to put it into. Clarence