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Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new)

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In article <mra0ji$o1e$1@dont-email.me>, Dan Espen  <despen@verizon.net> wrote:
>Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> writes:
>
>> Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> wrote:
>>> On 2015-08-22, hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com <hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>>> I recall that in the early days of email that paper consumption
>>>> actually went UP--when people received an email, they immediately
>>>> printed it out.
>>> 
>>> I'm still trying to wean people off this behaviour.  Many people
>>> jump at the chance to give up their stacks of paper if only someone
>>> shows them simple but effective methods for organizing disk files.
>>> Others... well, some people need the reassurance of a piece of paper
>>> in their hands, and will fight tooth and nail to keep it.  And I'm
>>> sure many of us can remember managers who demanded a weekly 1000-page
>>> report, of which they only looked at the last page.  But for them
>>> it was an important status symbol.
>>> 
>>> Remember the dream of the "paperless office"?  Just afterwards laser
>>> printers became affordable, and people printed more than ever.
>>
>> Think about photos.  Hard drives crash, CDs and DVDs degrade and become
>> unreadable.  A paper photo stored properly will last hundreds of years.
>
>When I scan a photo, the paper goes to the trash.
>I do keep a backup of my hard disk, on another hard disk.
>If the house burns down, old photos are the least of my issues.
>
>No one will want my photos.

Well, I want mine. I keep them on two sets of memory sticks (around 5 in
each set) on two different locations (home and work). In addition I have
a 4-way mirror of 500G disks, three in an outhouse and one in the house
itself. The distance between them are sufficiently large that any one
fire will never take out both. And I keep a backup of the most important
one in a cloud server in New Zealand. 

Total cost? Well, the raid is from old disks that have been upgraded, 
the server ditto, the power is around 10 watts. (it is an arm processor).
The backup is $29/month. And then I have to buy two USB drives every year
or so, $40/year. 

This also store my mail and my documents.

Yes, I have kept all email (except spam, which was 90% at a time, now
barely half) from 1979 on with only some minor gaps.

-- mrr

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Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-21 13:44 -0700
  Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-22 00:40 +0000
    Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-21 20:16 -0700
      Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-22 13:27 +1000
      Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) "Osmium" <r124c4u102@comcast.net> - 2015-08-21 22:40 -0500
        Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-22 06:58 +0000
          Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-22 13:18 -0700
        Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Quadibloc <jsavard@ecn.ab.ca> - 2015-08-27 20:21 -0700
      Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-08-21 23:40 -0500
      Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-22 08:28 +0000
        Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Huge <Huge@nowhere.much.invalid> - 2015-08-22 09:24 +0000
        Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Joe Makowiec <makowiec@invalid.invalid> - 2015-08-22 11:39 +0000
          Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Charlie Gibbs <cgibbs@kltpzyxm.invalid> - 2015-08-22 17:14 +0000
            Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) "Santo Brown" <sb8743@gmail.com> - 2015-08-23 04:53 +1000
          Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-22 13:23 -0700
            Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-08-22 21:13 -0400
        Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-22 12:13 +0000
          Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-08-22 10:24 -0400
            Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Morten Reistad <first@last.name> - 2015-08-22 16:54 +0200
            Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-22 13:28 -0700
          Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) hancock4@bbs.cpcn.com - 2015-08-22 13:27 -0700
            Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-22 22:24 +0000
            Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Dan Espen <despen@verizon.net> - 2015-08-22 21:12 -0400
            Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-22 23:30 -0400
              Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-23 10:47 +0000
                Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-23 09:45 -0400
                Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Peter Flass <peter_flass@yahoo.com> - 2015-08-23 14:55 +0000
                Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-23 14:24 +0000
                Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2015-08-23 18:21 -0400
                Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Stan Barr <plan.b@bluesomatic.org> - 2015-08-24 06:56 +0000
                Re: Business data processing on the System/3 (the old and the new) Dave Garland <dave.garland@wizinfo.com> - 2015-08-23 10:04 -0500

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