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"Paper, it turns out, is a very reliable backup medium for information." finally my backup strategy of tens of thousands of pages of dot matrix printing on con

• samstave 4y ago
  In 1998 we had a super security conscious CTO. He had me come in each morning and go over the logs for the servers on our VOIP product - which fed to a line-printer (dot matrix) in real-time and would spit out a ton of paper. (as much as I hated this, I love the sound of dot-matrix printers) I had to go through the logs with a highlighter and highlight out anything suspicious... This was the mid-late 90s and we were one of the few companies to have already adoped Linux to production at that time. Some of our employees were the authors of H.323 and some other protocols - and flourished out to all sorts of your streaming techs today.
• jfk13 4y ago
  Hah, reminds me of when my university account was going to be closed down (this would've been in the early 80s), and I had some files I wanted to preserve. So one evening, I sent them to the card punch, and then lugged the resulting boxes home on my bicycle. (At this point, I've no idea what eventually became of those boxes, though...)