Don't laugh. I had a Citrix server (remote desktop) in San Jose, CA that crashed. After several hours of furious work and multiple reboots to bring it back to life, my assistant and I accidentally left a floppy disk in the drive. After about ten seconds o reading the disk, it flipped to the drive array and booted right up. We made several copies of that disk nd stored in a media safe with backup tapes, a copy in his desk, a copy in my desk, and a copy in the drive. It was like gold. We went home, content that the solution was found. Not an elegant solution, but a solution.
This reminds me of a story from a little further back. A woman was hired to inventory and set up a database for a small company with the promise she would be taken on permanently when done. As soon as she finished the owner fired her and hired his girlfriend. The first woman went back in to pick up her things and just happened to set her purse containing a few strong magnets in it on top of the 5 1/4 floopy case holding all the work she'd done.
Don't laugh. I had a Citrix server (remote desktop) in San Jose, CA that crashed. After several hours of furious work and multiple reboots to bring it back to life, my assistant and I accidentally left a floppy disk in the drive. After about ten seconds o reading the disk, it flipped to the drive array and booted right up.
ReplyDeleteWe made several copies of that disk nd stored in a media safe with backup tapes, a copy in his desk, a copy in my desk, and a copy in the drive. It was like gold.
We went home, content that the solution was found. Not an elegant solution, but a solution.
Jim, I bet you never stored it with a refrigerator magnet!
ReplyDeleteThat is classic, every now and then I visit a company and I see them use the 3.5s as coffee coasters.
ReplyDeleteI remember stories like this--to not forget a disk, attach to your refrigerator with a magnet.
ReplyDeleteOf course, those disks were the 5 1/4" floppies.
Those older floppies did not like going through a typewriter either (someone trying to type the label instead of writing on it).
That's almost as bad as this ....
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This reminds me of a story from a little further back. A woman was hired to inventory and set up a database for a small company with the promise she would be taken on permanently when done. As soon as she finished the owner fired her and hired his girlfriend. The first woman went back in to pick up her things and just happened to set her purse containing a few strong magnets in it on top of the 5 1/4 floopy case holding all the work she'd done.
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