SC - Even more OT - Re: Potato Soup-OT-OOP

[Diana Skaggs]

The offer stands for me too. If you are near NYC I have a CDR and can move
tham for you.  :)

Glo

At 09:06 PM 10/22/98 -0800, you wrote:
>You buy or borrow a CDR drive--a drive that can write CD disks. Currently a
>4X (that's a measure of the recording speed) external CDR for a Macintosh
>costs about $400; there are probably cheaper ones for Windows machines. It
>should come with a computer program called "Toast" (at least on Macs--I
>don't know if it is the best software for Windows machines as well).
>
>You buy CDR disks; the high end ones cost about $3 each. One disk holds
>about 640 megs, so your 400 disks will take either one or two CD's,
>depending on what kind of floppies they are. The drive can write an entire
>CD in something between ten minutes and an hour. Transfer your files from
>floppies to your hard drive, then from the hard drive to a CD. You now not
>only have a backup, you have a backup that can be read in an ordinary CD
>drive, which most recent computers have.
>
>If you have a Mac, and happen to be in San Jose, bring over your disks and
>we can take care of the matter in an afternoon.
>
>David (who just backed up a hard drive to CDR last night)/Cariadoc (who
>doesn't know what any of this is about)


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