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What if IT happened?
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The_old_man
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Back in the mid 60s, a very large computer main-frame producer failed to fully check out a data format transfer.
They had kept all of the backboard wire routing data, for all product models, on punch cards. The cards took over 400 cubic foot of storage space. In an economy move they transfered all that data to mag-tape. Only one transfer was made before the cards were trashed.
Two weeks after the cards were gone, they found a glitch in the transfer algorithm.
One vice president resigned, a programmer was fired, and it took over a million dollars worth of reverse engineering to recover the lost data.
My stories are quite inconsequential.
They had kept all of the backboard wire routing data, for all product models, on punch cards. The cards took over 400 cubic foot of storage space. In an economy move they transfered all that data to mag-tape. Only one transfer was made before the cards were trashed.
Two weeks after the cards were gone, they found a glitch in the transfer algorithm.
One vice president resigned, a programmer was fired, and it took over a million dollars worth of reverse engineering to recover the lost data.
My stories are quite inconsequential.
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PAUL C
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that's what made me think to ask
It was my inability to access Lit the other day that caused me to ponder what I would do if all my stories were gone forever.
I have them in bits and pieces on two or perhaps three PC's and the odd hard drive gathering dust on a shelf. Also they are on the floppies I ferried between them to copy. I have also sent copies to trusted friends at odd moments. And there is a middle-aged couple in New York who have every word I have written and try to act out my stories. (The sex bits anyway).
But if my back ups died I know I would start to re-write but I also know I would never finish
It was my inability to access Lit the other day that caused me to ponder what I would do if all my stories were gone forever.
I have them in bits and pieces on two or perhaps three PC's and the odd hard drive gathering dust on a shelf. Also they are on the floppies I ferried between them to copy. I have also sent copies to trusted friends at odd moments. And there is a middle-aged couple in New York who have every word I have written and try to act out my stories. (The sex bits anyway).
But if my back ups died I know I would start to re-write but I also know I would never finish
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