'taint nothing. We did a random recall of boxes of tapes for review. One of the boxes had 9" disk floppy disk pacs. From the early 80's I believe. I asked for permission to dispose of them. Denied. But considering the chance of any recovery if ever needed, I decided to keep them in house rather than paying someone to store it.
On Mon, Jun 15, 2009 at 2:51 PM, Sherry Abercrombie<[email protected]> wrote: > Ya'll will find the humor in this.... > > Just had a question from an accounting type person of "Do we still have > backups of the Pic system?" Now the system in question was in place in the > late 90s, it was replaced in 2000 by PeopleSoft which of course at that time > all the data from that old system was imported into PeopleSoft. If and > that's a big if I have any tapes with that data on them it could be in 4mm, > 8mm, Type II DLT, Type III DLT or Type IV DLT tapes, and we would have to > pay Iron Mountain to catalog literally 100's of tapes to even determine if > that data is on there. Most likely the tapes have been destroyed since they > are from the 1995 - 1999 time frame. > > -- > Sherry Abercrombie > > "Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic." > Arthur C. Clarke > > > > ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~
