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From: dmimi@ecsvax.UUCP (Miriam Clifford)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Re: hh hd's in a z-150
Message-ID: <3877@ecsvax.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 17-Sep-87 05:07:30 EDT
Article-I.D.: ecsvax.3877
Posted: Thu Sep 17 05:07:30 1987
Date-Received: Thu, 24-Sep-87 04:31:46 EDT
References: <255@auscso.UUCP> <3838@ecsvax.UUCP> <336@auscso.UUCP> <3871@ecsvax.UUCP>
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Summary: Two floppies can be useful

In article <3871@ecsvax.UUCP>, phco@ecsvax.UUCP (John Miller) writes:
> In article <336@auscso.UUCP> johnk@auscso.UUCP (John Knutson) writes:
> >In article <3838@ecsvax.UUCP> phco@ecsvax.UUCP (John Miller) writes:
> >>would need two floppy drives when there's a hard disk installed, though.
> >
> . . . Having
> two floppies makes it slightly easier to copy one floppy to another,
> but if you regularly need to use a hard disk AND TWO floppies, it sounds
> like you probably need a larger hard disk or another hard disk instead
> 
The addition of two hard drives sounds great--but I got a two floppy, one
hard disk machine for about $30 more than a single floppy, one hard disk
machine would have cost.

Two floppies can be very useful--in addition to the ease of copying from one
floppy (say a factory disk) to another (for backup), one can easily set up
backup for data in two different organizations by copying one set of data
to two each of two different sets of backup disks.  For example, in transcribing
hospital reports, we keep one set on the hard disk, organized by the MD doing
the report (i.e., each MDs reports go into his/her own directory), one set of
reports with all the reports done on one day on one floppy, and reports from
each resident/intern each onto his/her own floppy.  The floppies are useful
because they are tranferred to other machines/people that way, for their
storage.  My description doesn't sound as easy as the process actually is--
Ah well.