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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
It's curious isn't it how much historical stuff you keep. I have a "utils" directory with old DOS utilities in it. Do I delete or keep? Given storage is so cheap these days I just keep it all. You never know.
There's also bin, etc, misc and lord knows what else.
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I'm wishing I kept more. I have a lot of utilities I purchased a while back which are no longer available for download, except by re-buying a newer version I don't need.
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Originally Posted by heero_yuy
I have a project for the future which is to digitise my N1702 tapes of old Horizon and World About Us TV programmes from way ago. That'll need plenty of storage. These were deleted by the BBC in a false economy drive but I need to do this before the recorders and tapes die. I have two functional recorders, plus three for spares and one un-used new video head drum.
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Now that sounds like a worthwhile project.
Do be aware (this goes to anyone planning on buying the Seagate 8TB archive drive) it's a SMR drive which is really slow at writing, especially if you try to write more than 30GB in one go.
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