To Back Up or Not to Back Up?

There is only one answer to this question. Back up your computer files!

Backup means make a copy. A copy can be made on CDs, DVDs or an external hard drive connected to your computer. Sometimes copies are made to more than one of the above for extra safety.

A computer is a machine that has moving parts. The parts wear out. If they get wet the parts are ruined. There is really no excuse for not making a second copy of important pictures and other documents.

Many of us keep precious family pictures on our computers with no copy anywhere else. If you do nothing else, at least, backup the pictures.

Sometimes I think it would be great if all my papers and computer files disappeared. What a clean desk I would have. However, I really do love all my digital pictures.

Make a backup!!!!

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Fun Fact for the Day

The first spread sheet program for personal computers was VisiCalc. It changed the world.

New Beginnings

Some think I started working in the computer industry when dinosaurs roamed the earth and on many days it seems like that to me too. However, I bring a perspective of seeing the most rapidly changing industry evolve, change and mutate. It has been hard, stressful but mostly fun and I would do it all over again in a heartbeat.

So I am going to blog. With history, insight and the grace of experience to say what I want to.

I came on the scene when computers built with transistors were in use. They occupied a vast amount of space, used a lot of electricity and needed constant air conditioning. Today, I probably have close to the processing power of one of those in my pocket as part of my cell phone.

How did we get here? Fundamentally basic research, much of it funded by the U.S. government is at the heart of progress. Where will we go next, only time and innovation will tell.

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Fun Fact for the Day

Did you know that in the original North American Numbering Plan for telephone numbers all the area codes had either a 1 or a 0 as the middle number?