The Robot is set up enough now to work with the Ohio Transit Hiker's Resource (OTHR)'s maps. All I can say is "finally." Today, I purchased two licenses of DiskImage by LapLink, one for The Robot and the other for my laptop. I once had a copy of Norton Ghost, which apparently is just like it. It saved what's called an "image" of my hard drive to a file so that if anything happened to that computer, I could just re-instate the image and the result would almost be as my computer had never crashed. It will save a lot of time, too. In the recent past, I couldn't justify the expense of both licenses. But in light of having to reprogram The Robot twice in 3 1/2 months, I decided that now was the time.
So, I installed it to both, but I haven't configured it yet. I might be able to get the laptop to regularly save it's image to a specified location on The Robot over the network. Then schedule The Robot to save a similar one in a similar location. And since it's 4th hard disk drive is rather large, I might be able to use it as a retainer until I can manually copy, or move those files to my external hard disk drive somewhat irregularly. This drive will ultimately reside in a fire proof safe, unless it's needed.
Since its going on to be February 3rd, it's difficult to say if the new edition of the OTHR will be published on time.
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