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Originally Posted by redpoint5
My friend's dad had 100% of his brokerage customer's data on a DOS box that was 15 years old when it stopped booting. I had old hardware from a scrap heap at work that happened to take the hard drive without issue.
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Sometimes it's quite shocking to notice most of the hardware which used to be mainstream became obsolete beyond any chance of remaining viable, not even resorting to some minimalist Linux distro.
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He gave me $100 for recovering his whole careers worth of customer data.
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Better than a friend of my father, who expected me to load a moving van for him at no cost, while I was so sick I couldn't carry a 14" CRT TV
