Disk archival techniques

[Tony Duell]

> 
> On Wed, 18 May 2005, Tony Duell wrote:
> > > > 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...
> 
> How can somebody even consider a career in "engineering" if they've never
> even made their own flashlight ("torch" on the other side of the pond)

Apparently, engineers don't make things, that's what technicians are for. 
While this may be true, I'd not accept an electrical engineer who 
couldn't light a bulb under such conditions...

And we live in a world where curiousity is frowned upon. The whole idea 
of schools seems to be to remove curiousity from children -- fortunately 
they failed in my case.

-tony