Re: REPOST: RMAN question

From: Mark Bole <makbo_at_pacbell.net>
Date: Mon, 13 Sep 2004 01:10:15 GMT
Message-ID: <Xr61d.18854$KZ5.8597@newssvr27.news.prodigy.com>

Joel Garry wrote:

> Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu> wrote in message news:<1094102685.782496_at_yasure>...
>

>>>Not a user's PC, but definitely on servers.  (Well, I've come close on
>>>my own PC :-O but I'm the only person I know who uses tape on a PC. 
>>>Because I'm a packrat.  Yes, I have stacks of punch cards.)
>>
>>If you have a few of the sorting needles too and would be willing to
>>part with them for demonstration uses at the U please contact me
>>off-line and name your "reasonable" price.

>
>
> Don't have those, sorry.
>
> jg
> --
> @home.com is bogus.
> How 'bout that evaluation, eh? http://www.bookpool.com/.x/hgwppormg4/sm/1590593871

way too late to the party, as usual...

Are "sorting needles" those things they used to use in libraries to do a search through a stack of cards with cut-outs punched around the outer edge to indicate the various categories that each card could be "searched" on? You push the needle through the entire stack at the location of your desired search category (user defined, IIRC), lift up the needle, and only those cards *without* the full cut-out would be selected? (not 80-column Hollerith cards)

I'm firmly on Daniel's side. Tape is 20th century techology. I have quite a few important (to me) files dating back to the mid-80s, and I've moved them along over the years in a useful fashion from hard disk to hard disk. The next most reliable media I have is paper-based (source code listings, hand-written address lists, teletype paper punch tape, which of course you can read by eyeball if you know the language).

--Mark Bole Received on Sun Sep 12 2004 - 20:10:15 CDT