---
title: "The Idiot’s Idiot Line"
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published_at: "2024-01-28T18:33:55+00:00"
modified_at: "2024-06-23T11:45:31+00:00"
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  url: "http://localhost/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/20230809-041332.jpg"
excerpt: "Despite the safeguards built into ZX Pro/ File, I have managed to erase by mistake two pages of data. Consequently, I devised this Idiot's idiot line."
category:
  - name: "Pro/File Updates"
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    url: "http://localhost/category/periodicals/pro-file-updates/"
post_tag:
  - name: "1984"
    slug: "year-1984"
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    url: "http://localhost/tag/year-1984/"
  - name: "TS 1000"
    slug: "ts1000"
    taxonomy: "post_tag"
    url: "http://localhost/tag/ts1000/"
  - name: "Type-in program"
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    url: "http://localhost/tag/type-in-program/"
model:
  - name: "Timex/Sinclair 1000"
    slug: "ts-1000"
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    url: "http://localhost/model/ts-1000/"
indiv:
  - name: "Irving Helbling"
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    url: "http://localhost/indiv/irving-helbling/"
publication_r:
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  title: "Pro/File Updates"
  type: "periodical"
  url: "http://localhost/periodical/pro-file-updates/"
authors: "Irving Helbling"
volume: "1"
issue: "3"
issues_articles:
  - id: 52731
    title: "Pro/file Updates v1 n3"
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    url: "http://localhost/issue/pro-file-updates-v1-n3/"
pages: "4"
pubdate: "July 1984"
product_reviews:
  - id: 14729
    title: "ZX Pro/File"
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    url: "http://localhost/product/zx-pro-file-2/"
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---

# The Idiot’s Idiot Line

Despite the safeguards built into ZX Pro/ File, I have managed to erase by mistake two pages of data. Consequently, I devised this Idiot’s idiot line.