Well, media on which information can be stored may be fragile. On the other
hand, if you think about it, it is quite amazing that a platter with
magnetized iron on it spinning at 5400 revolutions per minute, or faster,
can keep on doing that for many hours a day for several years. But fragile
as the media may be, it is also easier than ever to make copies of
information, which mitigates the fragility of any one copy.
So progress is made.
I also liked WordPerfect 5.1. But companies go out of business, things
change. Not all changes are good, but overall, I would contend that most are
for the better.
Evan
-----Original Message-----
From: David F
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2018 6:14 PM
To: sfclub@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [sfclub] Re: for everyone who, like me, still uses Windows 7
Never has there been a time when so much information has been available and
been so fragile. Software goes obselette, think WP5.1, which holds the
majority of a booklist I have, think ASAP vs. Jaws, think older equipment, a
486DX4 with a 426 meg hard-drive and maybe 16 meg of ram that you had to use
something called High DOS to make work because above 640 k DOS got weird.
And 14.4 k BAUD rate
-----Original Message-----
From: sfclub-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:sfclub-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Mary Emerson (Redacted sender "maryemerson" for DMARC)
Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2018 4:30 PM
To: sfclub list
Subject: [sfclub] Re: for everyone who, like me, still uses Windows 7
David and list,
Some PCs still have spinning hard drives; still lots of 1TB hard drives,
and even some 500 meg hard drives. The newer solid state drives are
still too expensive, and I heard they'll only work for a limited amount
of time before they quit. Built-in obselescence. But then, the regular
hard drives wear out too.
Mary
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