[SpamCop-Geeks] Re: [Media] MS-DOS Paternity Dispute Goes to Court

[Sofa King Tyred of Lar Ting]

Bert Driehuis wrote:
> On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 15:43:51 -0500
> eddie <eddie at eddie.web> wrote:
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>>Those were the days when you simply turned off the power when you were
>>done computing. :)
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> Only if you couldn't afford a hard disk.
> 
> Professionals in those days would never shut down their DOS PC's without
> parking the hard disk!

I used to flip up the A & B floppy drive levers before shutting off the 
PC; I was told you could get corrupted data on the floppy diskette.

Of course, there wasn't a lot that *didn't* cause floppies to get 
corrupted in those days.

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