Agreed!

If you don't drink alcohol at all, you can't false positive.

I think the Law is still too soft on drunk drivers. I don't see a breathalyzer test as a violation of the 4'th in any way. Anyone stupid enough to consume alcohol, then get behind the wheel while impaired, needs to be caught... before yet another life is taken or marred forever.

Wow... now THAT I didn't expect to see happen! The link on my page for the HDD64 has apparently been Slashdotted! :(

I should have CORALized that link, as well. My apologies! I didn't think there would have been THAT much interest! (Either that, or his Host has ridiculously LOW usage limits!)

Here is the Google Cache of the site. I hope it helps!

http://webcache.googleusercontent.com/search?q=cache:http%3A%2F%2Fwww.64hdd.com%2F64hdd.html

That's not the same thing... not even close. It's cool, but still very different. You can't just "PEEK" and "POKE" (or LDA and STA) to an address to read/write data to/from this device. You need to install drivers. You need to know how to "call" those drivers, etc. Plus, little "toys" like this can get expensive!

Wiring expansions into the 8-bit CPU systems of yesteryear was so easy, and inexpensive. Usually, you only needed a handful of chips that cost less than $1 each. You could just solder wires onto the pins of the existing IC's in the computer to connect to your projects. (The closest we come to that now, is PICs.)

"Talking" to your new devices was easy, also. I built lightshow controllers, speech boards, and several other devices for the Commodore. The command/control interface was as simple as "PEEK" and "POKE" from Basic, or LDA and STA in assembly. No drivers. No DLL's. No college level courses required to learn these newfangled languages like "C" or Perl, etc. , no IDE's to learn, either.

Now you have to load a pile of DLL's, know how to set them up, pass parameters to/from them, etc.

Don't get me wrong... I am thankful for the high tech that we have now! It's just not as "hands-on" for more casual tinkerers, like it used to be.

Wow, that really is a very heartwarming story! :)

Not just a Doctor... but on the Dean's List! Awesome! :)

It's an intriguing idea, but unless I was looking for a job where I'd be restoring files from "ancient" archives, it wouldn't be all that relevant. Unless the Interviewer was a geek (most of them are NOT) it would be a waste of space.

If anyone's curious, the setup I used to do this is pictured here:

http://www.mymorninglight.org.nyud.net/C64/index.htm

It's still set up, and still works. I haven't tinkered with it in a while, but last time I powered it up (2 months ago) it was working.

They had to let 1/2 the staff go, to survive. Since I had been there for 20 years, I was making a lot more than many. I hold no bitterness toward any of them. They are good people, and I am glad that the station remains on the air to this day!

BTW, on the Commodore 64 topic, this is what I have for my C64:

http://www.mymorninglight.org.nyud.net/C64/index.htm

Good grief. Sure, it's outdated, but the Commie 64 was more than just another computer. It was a hobby. It was a pastime. It was a learning tool. It was an EXPERIENCE. If you had the ability and knowledge, you could add new features and functionality to the machine by cutting traces and soldering wires to the leads on chips, to your extension circuitry. I added all kinds of extras to mine, including a BASIC extension, MicroMon Assembler, a cartridge "bypass" switch, etc. Can't do those kinds of things with modern PC's.

My first word processor was "Speedscript". I typed it in from COMPUTE! Magazine over several days. That program did, in six kilobytes, what WORD was doing in hundreds, back in the early 90's! I used it more than any other software on that Ol' 64!

Now, want to talk about emulators? How about this one:

http://www.mymorninglight.org.nyud.net/C64/J64.htm

Now THAT is a COOL C= 64 emulator, if I do say so myself! :)

Yeah, it is wasteful... but depending upon what was on those drives, it's the only SURE way to prevent sensitive data from falling into the wrong hands. As long as the shreds are being recycled, that's a good thing. :)

Dude, you deserve a lot more than a pat on the back! Kudos, man. Seriously. There is SO MUCH MORE to this life than the accumulation of goods. (How stinking SHALLOW that is!) You're making investments into the lives of others, and it is already paying HUGE dividends!

What if it's YOUR NEPHEW that discovers a cure for cancer? It could be!

Kudos, man. Bigtime. :)

My wife and I never had kids, but we have poured love into our nieces and nephews, so I can relate to that. :)

As for GTA, no, I'm not a gamer. I get the idea, tho. ;)

I pray that your business prospers, not so much for the gain, but for the lives you are already touching through it. Way to go!!

First, I seriously doubt that the Almighty would damn the thing.

Second, you would only destroy a PORTION of the data. With the gear that the FBI has, they could still reconstruct significant portions of it from the undamaged parts of the disk... if they had a reason to do so.

Everything but sales and administrative.

Chief Engineer. IT guy. Morning announcer. Production director. Music Director. That's why I loved that job!

Here is what I hope to achieve, next:

http://www.wphafm.org/

I discovered (much to my dismay) that my C= disks were actually disintegrating within the drive! They'd read fine for a little while, then they stopped... (I did this with only 2 disks, one unimportant one, and an important one) When I popped it out to look at it, I saw that the head was slowing rubbing away the magnetic coating! The longer the head stayed on one track with the drive spinning, the worse it got.

Well, if you remember how the C= disks were set up, the directory was in track 18. Of course, that track got pasted in short order. Fortunately for me, I had made two copies of that important disk, so I had another!

I used HDD64 to create a D64 image of the other... it moved the head fast enough, that it could dump all of the data to the PC in one pass, leaving the floppy still usable. Now that I had the data on the PC, backing it up in multiple places was easy.

I also have an AMD 40Meg HD unit, but the HD inside is dying. I don't know if it will even spin-up for much longer! (It seems to be slow starting, now.) It's an OLD SCSI drive, so I can't just connect it to the PC and pull the files out. It will have to be done with the X1541 cable, a directory at a time, I think. Slow as molasses. I don't know if the drive will survive the process, so I saved as many files as I could, the last time I had it powered up. I don't know what will happen next, each time I try to power it up, it struggles. I don't know which will be the last time!

WFIF radio.

http://www.wfif.net/