Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Where's your message in all this? Amities Philippe Le 20 nov. 2014 ? 19:40, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> a ?crit : > >> On Nov 20, 2014, at 10:23 AM, Ken Iisaka <ken at iisaka.com> wrote: >> >> 2"x2"? Before CDs and memory sticks? >> >> These 2"x2" square things I know were called "slides" but each only >> carried >> one image. ie floppies... >> >> Or, are you referring to CF or Compact Flash? The first ones contained a >> tiny little hard disk, but soon replaced by flash memory. these are an >> inch or 1.5 in they can carry many images... ie CF cards >> >> I have a reader, and I'd be happy to transfer the images to another medium >> for you, provided there aren't millions of them. How many are we talking >> about? I'm sure local computer shops could be persuaded to do the same. >> >> >> On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:14 AM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> wrote: >> >>> HI CREW, >>> Yeah I know it's me asking a techie question! :-) Well you all know "I'm >>> clueless when it comes to techie things." >>> So please be kind to the "old lad." Thank you. :-) >>> >>> Remember those little, I think they were about 2"X 2"square discs we >>> loaded >>> all kinds of images on? Then technologies advanced and we moved to CD's >>> and >>> Memory Sticks" And heaven knows what? >>> >>> I have quite a number of those 2X2 discs, if that's what they're called? >>> >>> Can I take them to some computer techie shop and have the info on them >>> downloaded to memory sticks of today? I'm sure there's a wealth of "old >>> images" loaded on them and I'd like to retrieve them if possible? And not >>> going to cost the Bank of Canada monetary reserves to pay for the change >>> over? :-) >>> >>> At one time I did have a back-up hard drive, unfortunately the chap >>> installing it didn't do it right! YEP you guessed! So when we did have a >>> computer crash and burn I lost about 10,000 images because the back-up >>> drive >>> wasn't doing anything but taking up space in my little computer room!!! >>> :-( >>> :-( >>> >>> Your suggestions please. >>> >>> Thanks a bunch. >>> >>> cheers, >>> ted >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> _______________________________________________ >>> Leica Users Group. >>> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> Ken Iisaka >> first name at last name dot org or com >> >> _______________________________________________ >> Leica Users Group. >> See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information > > > _______________________________________________ > Leica Users Group. > See http://leica-users.org/mailman/listinfo/lug for more information