alt.engineering.electrical

According to krw :
> In article , dnichols@
> says...
> > According to krw :

[ ... ]

> > > Shouldn't be too bad today. Twenty years ago, when people smoked in
> > > office buildings... Even so, hardware is cheap. Labor isn't.
> >
> > Including the labor of re-entering or re-creating lost data. Of
> > course, proper backup procedures can minimize this.
>
> If the data is already lost, the repair tech isn't going to bring it
> back without a lot of heroics and luck. The bottom line is: don't
> lose data. It doesn't come back.

Sometimes -- if the data has been entered from dead tree form,
it may still be around and can be re-entered. And if it is calculated
data from existing input -- that also can be re-calculated.

But that costs a lot more (in time) than proper backups. :-)

Enjoy,
DoN.

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