I was reminded today about the worst backup mistake I ever made.

Way back when hard disks were luxuries, I was making a backup of a floppy disk by copying it to another floppy. I verified which disk to copy and which was blank, but while the disk copier was loading, I got them mixed up.

The disk was halfway through quietly formatting away, in the slowest floppy drive ever invented, when I noticed the disk in my hand was the unformatted blank.

Profane lamentations for days.

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Anyway, it was and is a great computer, but the single worst thing ever about the Commodore 64 personal computer is the Commodore 1541 floppy disk drive.

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