Abstract: A system for preventing permanent loss of work product from a volatile memory (30) of an information processing device (12) when such work is temporarily lost, erased, or corrupted owing to power failure, equipment malfunction, operator error, or other misadventure. When the information processing device (12) is turned on, the system is automatically loaded from a non-volatile memory (44) into a volatile memory (14) where it then resides (block 32). The system thereafter causes every substantive input (including data, positional information, and data formatting and manipulating instructions, but not ancillary inputs such as a view directory or print command) to the information processing device (12) to be stored immediately, and essentially quantum by quantum, in the non-volatile memory (44) concurrently with its initial processing in the volatile memory (14). When work is lost from the volatile memory (14), the system reconstructs it either automatically or semi-automatically, as selected by the operator.