[Eug-lug] Warning of data ticking time bomb

[dooger watts]

Ran into this last summer, myself.  Had used a Brother Word Processor 
for years, conveniently forgetting that all things break down eventually.

Had scores of floppies dedicated to their proprietary format.  With each 
model "upgrade," the previous format became obsolete, so that none of 
the newer brother models would read the older brother-formatted floppies.

When the original old tank tanked, brother said tuff, and I ended up 
having to hire an outside firm to transfer the data from the old brother 
floppies to "new" msdos floppies.

(Will NEVER do business with brother again in any way whatsoever).

Now, so long as I can still get floppy drives...  (Saw a portable USB 
one the other day).

Brian Gallagher wrote:
> There goes MS...running with their shoe laces untied...again!
> 
> On 7/4/07, *Harald Sundt* <h_sundt at efn.org <mailto:h_sundt at efn.org>> wrote:
> 
>     Isn't there utilities that go back all the way to ProDos on the Mac and
>     all the proprietary sorts of files like MacLink+ for both Windows and
>     the Mac?
> 
> 
>     Warning of data ticking time bomb
> 
>     http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6265976.stm
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