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lauradi7dwSaddened again by reminders of the Shuttle Columbia awfulness, this time in an article about a firm that has managed to retrieve some of the data from the experiments they were doing even though the disk drive was damaged, to say the least. I read this and was taken aback
"However, at the core of the drive, the spinning metal platters that actually store data were not warped. They had been gouged and pitted, but the 340-megabyte drive was only half full, and the damage happened where data had not yet been written.
Edwards attributes that to a lucky twist: The computer was running an ancient operating system, DOS, which does not scatter data all over drives as other approaches do."
I'm a lot more ancient than DOS.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_hi_te/shuttle_recovered_data
"However, at the core of the drive, the spinning metal platters that actually store data were not warped. They had been gouged and pitted, but the 340-megabyte drive was only half full, and the damage happened where data had not yet been written.
Edwards attributes that to a lucky twist: The computer was running an ancient operating system, DOS, which does not scatter data all over drives as other approaches do."
I'm a lot more ancient than DOS.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080509/ap_on_hi_te/shuttle_recovered_data
