Disk archival techniques

[Tony Duell]

> > How many people saw that Nova? PBS session where they handed ENGINEERING
> > undergrads a battery a bulb and a handful of wires?  Many of the students
> > were adament that it was impossible to light the bulb without a socket.

It's worrying that I could do this before I even went to primary school...

> > Many of them made a dead short across the battery, and then touched one of
> > the bulb contacts to that. etc.
> 
> Wow, comedy for nerds.  I have to see that.

Well, I don't know whether to laugh or cry...

-tony