• BearOfaTime@lemm.ee
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    6 months ago

    Jesus Saves… Early and often.

    Phrase from the early 90’s, when saving was often to a floppy, and systems were nowhere near as stable as today.

    Control-S is your friend.

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        6 months ago

        I don’t think it’s a question that modern systems are more stable; any belief otherwise is just pure nostalgia (or someone who wasn’t actually working on computers in the early 90’s). Plus, the advent of autosave truly was a game-changer.

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        6 months ago

        I’ve never seen that, and not sure how any system could be so badly designed to permit this.

        And I’ve been using systems since DOS 1.1 (and punched cards before that).

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          Unless i’m wrong and the files got corrupted because of something else, it happened to me in the 3D software Sketchup, in indesign, illustrator and acrobat. Acrobat is by far the worst offender. PDFs are just unstable messes in general when trying to work on them.

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      6 months ago

      I had a computer lab teacher in the 90’s that was known to tell really long stories, it could be a joke or a shaggy dog depending on his mood, but you wouldn’t know until the end. “Jesus saves” was the punchline to one related to computers. I haven’t thought about him years. Thanks for the reminder.