[ShadowAce]

There would have been multiple backups in multiple media formats, and works in progress would be saved to hundreds of different machines and backups.

Not in 1998.

[hopespringseternal]

Why not? I found backups were far more likely to exist then than now because people were more disciplined about it and it was less automated.

Now backups are so automated and people are so used to not thinking about it there is a tendency to forget about them. Or test that you actually can do a restore.

[systemjim]

***Not in 1998***

YES, in 1998 (and also in 1991 when I began work in a UNIX shop!)

[lefty-lie-spy]

Such a silly comment. Why would you even write that?