These days there are a lot of electronic devices that need synchronization. I like the ones that are user-friendly and do it automatically, but sometimes they malfunction and then we have to go back to the old way of doing things. It is not always the fault of the device or its software. For instance, there is the time that I left a PDA in the sun inside my car in August in Arizona. The temperature outside was 110 and I cannot even fathom how hot it might have been inside. Needless to say, my device was cooked.
I have a new GPS device that I am thinking I had better learn how to synchronize before something goofy happens to it through no fault of its own. It is amazing how fast I became completely dependent on these devices.
When I started messing around with computers thirty-odd years ago, the big thing was back-up, and for me that usually meant printing everything out on paper. When it became possible to do directory synchronization that was quite a development, and one that, I think, saved a lot of paper.
I was one of those who got my PhT (Putting Hubby Through) degree before my PhD and therefore did not get around to filing my dissertation until the mid-80's. By then we were backing our data up on 5 1/4" floppy disks and I was paying my tuition retrieving data from people whose floppies had met with misfortune. Sometimes they spilled coffee on them, and other times they got dropped them on the floor and stepped on them, but mostly they just deleted their data by accident and needed it back.
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