PBP and a hard dirve?

[wdmagic]

next thing you know, he'll want to try using an old MFM harddrive and if that don't work perhaps some old 8" floppy disks. hehe

[Charles Linquis]

I can understand the thrill of being successful at doing something new and hard - but don't you want to channel your efforts toward something that will produce a base for future work?

[Amoque]

Some of this "previous" technology is so old as to be effective hardware encryption. Should a burglar even think to steal them, who will have an 8" floppy drive to retrieve your bank information? Similarly, how many companies could loose hundreds of thousands of credit card numbers in a single hack if modems were only 300 baud? Hmmm... perhaps I will move my sensitive information onto 8 Track tapes! Anybody still have a ZIP drive for sale cheap?

[Ioannis]

Anybody still have a ZIP drive for sale cheap?

I do! But not cheap...

Ioannis

[Amoque]

A quick Google informs me both ZIP drives and 8" floppies are still available! "All things old are new again", wow... Next, I suspect I'll hear that nixie tubes are still in use.

[Ioannis]

Of course they are! Brand new!

http://www.sphere.bc.ca/test/nixies.html

and cheap! http://tubehobby.com/store.php?cat=2

and as clock for sales: http://store.tubeclock.com/index.php/nixie-tube-clocks/

Ioannis