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Missing file names

Started Dec 27, 2018 | Discussions thread
Stephen McDonald
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Re: Missing file names
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About 18 years ago, I paid $250. for an external Zip drive, which could be operated as a standalone or plugged into a computer. I thought it would be a good solution to storing images from my new digital camera. The disks cost about $10. for 250 MB, no bargain at all. Then without warning, about 2/3 of them quit working and several hundred photos were not recoverable. I learned a hard lesson about the need for multiple types of backup, from that. The many 75kb photos I put on 25 cent floppy disks had no problems and are still playable today. I've transferred a couple thousand of the best ones to my five big external harddrives.

Here's one from a 75kb floppy drive image, that originated as a 640 X 480 analog vid-cap from an ED-Beta tape:

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