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From: siegel@magni.cs.cornell.edu (Alexander Siegel)
Newsgroups: comp.misc
Subject: Re: computer follies
Summary: This has gone far enough
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Date: 21 Sep 88 12:47:25 GMT
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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