Laptop Died!

[Rick Partlow]

I refuse to spend major money on a laptop.  The current one I own was $5-600 and it's the most I've ever spent on a laptop since about 2000, when even the cheap ones were $1000.  They're just too hard to upgrade and too vulnerable to count on them for more than 2-3 years.  I buy cheaper models for under $300 most of the time, use them for a couple years, then buy another. 

[Al Macy (aka TromboneAl)]

I have files in my directories going back over ten years and three businesses. I have people's whole websites stored (just in case) and in all cases I've not looked at them in 9.999 years. The British Statutory requirement is seven years for a public company and three years for a private company. An individual I think qualifies for a week, maybe two. #justsaying

I have files going back to the 1980s.   

5.25 floppies...   

8" floppies and Bernoulli disks.