Re: Re: Re: How to View Mathematica and Hardcopy Books
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- Subject: [mg62602] Re: [mg62525] Re: [mg62486] Re: How to View Mathematica and Hardcopy Books
- From: János <janos.lobb at yale.edu>
- Date: Tue, 29 Nov 2005 04:45:07 -0500 (EST)
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On Nov 27, 2005, at 2:40 AM, Andrzej Kozlowski wrote: > > On 26 Nov 2005, at 22:15, Chris Chiasson wrote: > >> I wonder if the data on that disk of yours is unrecoverable (disk >> surface damage or demagnetization of the disk), or if the motor just >> won't spin up. > > The latter. A small drop of fine oil to that area that is labeled "Do not remove this sticker or you lose warranty" used to cure this symptom :) János P.S. Folk tales and folk songs - without writing them down - survived thousands of years. May be computing should pursue THAT media for long term storage :) > It was a 20 megabyte hard disk (and of course I had copied > all the important data before I put it away) and since by that time a > single Zip disk could store 5 times as much I did not attempt any > recovery but just got rid of the useless thing. But it did sort of > dent my confidence in technology. > > > Andrzej Kozlowski
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- From: "Chris Chiasson" <chris.chiasson@gmail.com>
- Re: Re: How to View Mathematica and Hardcopy Books
- From: Andrzej Kozlowski <akoz@mimuw.edu.pl>
- Re: How to View Mathematica and Hardcopy Books