Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!osu-cis!tut.cis.ohio-state.edu!mailrus!cornell!siegel From: siegel@magni.cs.cornell.edu (Alexander Siegel) Newsgroups: comp.misc Subject: Re: computer follies Summary: This has gone far enough Message-ID: <21199@cornell.UUCP> Date: 21 Sep 88 12:47:25 GMT References: <1216@auschs.UUCP> <6561@dasys1.UUCP> Sender: nobody@cornell.UUCP Reply-To: siegel@cs.cornell.edu (Alexander Siegel) Organization: Cornell Univ. CS Dept, Ithaca NY Lines: 20 Back when I was a private entrepreneur who dealt in poltically questionable merchandise on the Orion Mazeworlds, I had an interesting experience. Well, I kept my financial records on disposable media, highly disposable media. Actually the media was a highly magnetized soap bubble. During one of my more profitable transactions on one of the lesser moons in the system, we were attacked by the police. I do not know why they attacked us; on the way in they mumbled something about not have a license to deal in hand held atomics. Well, to make a long story even longer, we had a fire fight which incinerated that moon and the two nearest planets. Disaster! My financial record were lost! I came back 20 years later after an extended visit to the police mental adjustment program to see what could be salvaged. I sat and blew magnetized bubbles in the approximate vacinity of the explosion (the area was still pretty hot) until one day I found one that looked right. I put it in my drive and managed 97% data recovery! Alex Siegel - CS graduate drudge at Cornell a.k.a. Scimitar; a.k.a. Phineas Ginn (SCA); a.k.a. Trash siegel@cs.cornell.edu (607)255-1165