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My dad started on a PDP-8 at my granddad's workplace (a newspaper).

He later wrote his PhD thesis on an Epson HX-20 and backed it up to PDP-11 magnetic tape.

When I was 16, we went to a computer museum to try to get his old backup off, but their PDP-11's Winchester hard drive was broken, so we couldn't boot it to load up something to read the tape.

Lesson to learn: copy your old backups forward when storage formats change.

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