Having actually used terminals connected (hardwire) to a CPU, and having actually SEEN punch-card loading for programming and data entry, this desktop stuff is all rather, aaaaahh, new-ish to me.
So OK. I get a desktop, about 10-15 years ago. Has a floppy-disk receptacle.
Next desktop has a CD receptacle, and I ordered a floppy-receptacle because, after all, a bunch of data was on this here floppy-library that I'd accumulated.
Next desktop has the CD receptacle, and cute little rectangular holes for thumb-drives. I ordered a floppy-receptacle extra, even though a bunch of the data is now stored on CDs AND in the "E" drive mirror.
Today I get a call from a pal in the local school. He tells me that their computers no longer have CD drives (and I had to explain "floppy" to him, too.)
Thumb-drives only.
Here I sit with a floppy library, a CD library, an extra hard-drive--and I can't give this guy any information b/c I don't use thumb-drives and THEY don't have CD drives.
Ugh.
Have you heard of file-sharing via cloud? Hundreds of sites will allow you to share files and send the links to other users publicly.
ReplyDeleteFor you, I would suggest box.net. However for the future, I encourage you to move all data to a storage drive and then back up to a secondary drive. I'm sitting on about two Terabytes at home with thumb/flash drives that can hold up to 80 Gigs.
Having written my first program on a keypunch I'll take the thumb drive, thank you very much Dov Moran.
ReplyDeleteHeh, heh – memories! Back in the early 70s I even learned how to wire boards for a punch card sorting machine! Did you ever see Bob Newhart’s gig where he’s talking on the phone with Herman Hollerith about his idea for punched cards…? It was a riot!
ReplyDeleteYes, I can relate about storage devices and when I purchased my last desktop I specified a floppy drive as I had so much data on that medium. But thumb drives and memory sticks are foreign to me. I take a while to catch up - and back in the day I was one who went with Betamax over VHS initially…!
But I’m making progress - I got a wireless modem recently…