Re: Alternative to floppy

Subject: Re: Alternative to floppy
From: "John Posada" <jposada99 -at- gmail -dot- com>
To: "Dan Goldstein" <DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 22 Oct 2008 15:04:10 -0400

Just say to save on a removable media and let them figure the rest
out. There are now too many off-line storage options and you aren't
going to be able to account for all of them.

On Wed, Oct 22, 2008 at 12:04 PM, Dan Goldstein
<DGoldstein -at- riverainmedical -dot- com> wrote:
> It turns out that some USB memory sticks have write-protection tabs, so
> they'd be just as good as a floppy in this regard.
>
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: Dan Goldstein
>> Sent: Thursday, May 15, 2008 8:36 AM
>> To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
>> Subject: Alternative to floppy
>>
>> A current procedure tells the customer to save a
>> configuration file to a floppy disk, write-protect the
>> floppy, label the floppy, and store the floppy for future
>> reference.
>>
>> Happy 2008! Floppy has left the building.
>>
>> The PC in question wouldn't necessarily have a CD-ROM
>> burner, so that's not an option.
>>
>> A thumb drive isn't as easily write-protected, and of
>> course some customers would be tempted to overwrite it
>> and use it for other purposes.
>>
>> The PC in question wouldn't necessarily have e-mail
>> access, but it would probably have Internet access.
>> Still, it would be nice to come up with a cheap, simple,
>> hard-media alternative to the floppy. Any thoughts?
>>
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