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...Harvard administrator turns on her computer, only to find the cryptic message "Invalid System Disk" on her screen as the computer refuses to start. The hard drive contains the only copies of five years' worth of documents, databases and recommendations. Luckily, the virus that infected her computer could be removed--this time...
...worth taking unnecessary chances with data. At any academic institution, the preservation of intellectual property is not just desirable, it's your academic or professional career on the line. After all, what if the STONED virus had infected John Locke's disk and eaten up his Second Treatise before he published it? What would the world be like if Newton's Principia had been the victim of a hard disk head crash...
...cheapest way of backing up your data is simply to save all of your documents in two places: on your hard disk and onto a floppy disk. That way, if something should happen to one copy, you have another waiting...
...better solution for protecting your data is to purchase a dedicated tape back-up drive for you Mac or PC, which can store the entire contents of your hard disk. These drives install easily into your computer or plug into the back of it. They use special tapes to store from 120 Mb or two gigabytes worth of files...
...increased capacity itself could do away with the CD-Audio box set as we know it--just imagine having those four Bob Marley CDs on one disk...