What a stunningly responsible young man I was, to have on June 10 1998 backed up all my files on a Zip disk, which of course I now no longer have the hardware to read.

Dennis G. Jerz / 28 Mar 2020

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2 thoughts on “What a stunningly responsible young man I was, to have on June 10 1998 backed up all my files on a Zip disk, which of course I now no longer have the hardware to read.”

rosemary says:
29 Mar 2020 at 9:53 pm
I have a zip drive you can use/have…
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- Dennis G. Jerz says:
  30 Mar 2020 at 1:22 am
  Wonderful! There’s no rush.
  And it’s entirely possible that I’ve got one tucked away in my office somewhere. On campus somewhere there might still be a legacy machine that still works. I am working from home and this doesn’t justify a trip.
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