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Spent a large part of yesterday backing up all my digital stuff
from 2020
DIR By: dinkleburg
Date: January 8, 2021, 8:57 am
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A task made more complicated by a flaky USB 3.0 card in one of
my (very lol) old PC's.
This thing is so old that it still has a port on the mother
board for a floppy disk controller. :o
Still have some more to do on the music pc, then I shall copy it
all on to another external drive for safe keeping at my sister's
place. That way, if my house blows up or something stupid, I
have another backup stored somewhere that hopefully didn't blow
up.
I'd hate to lose my photos/movies/musical projects, but I'm glad
I only do this a couple of times a year. :P
#Post#: 6423--------------------------------------------------
Re: Spent a large part of yesterday backing up all my digital
stuff from 2020
DIR By: AJ
Date: January 8, 2021, 4:01 pm
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--- Quote from: dinkleburg link ---
>
> A task made more complicated by a flaky USB 3.0 card in one of
my (very lol) old PC's.
> This thing is so old that it still has a port on the mother
board for a floppy disk controller. :o
>
> Still have some more to do on the music pc, then I shall copy
it all on to another external drive for safe keeping at my
sister's place. That way, if my house blows up or something
stupid, I have another backup stored somewhere that hopefully
didn't blow up.
>
> I'd hate to lose my photos/movies/musical projects, but I'm
glad I only do this a couple of times a year. :P
>
--- End Quote ---
I’ve got an external HDD I made with one of those kits you stick
a hdd in to make it work through a usb cable. Thing is, memory
sticks and sd cards hold more than the 50 gig drive and have in
the enclosure now.
#Post#: 6424--------------------------------------------------
Re: Spent a large part of yesterday backing up all my digital
stuff from 2020
DIR By: dinkleburg
Date: January 8, 2021, 6:17 pm
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--- Quote from: AJ link ---
>
> [quote author=dinkleburg link=topic=722.msg6421#msg6421
date=1610117871]
> A task made more complicated by a flaky USB 3.0 card in one of
my (very lol) old PC's.
> This thing is so old that it still has a port on the mother
board for a floppy disk controller. :o
>
> Still have some more to do on the music pc, then I shall copy
it all on to another external drive for safe keeping at my
sister's place. That way, if my house blows up or something
stupid, I have another backup stored somewhere that hopefully
didn't blow up.
>
> I'd hate to lose my photos/movies/musical projects, but I'm
glad I only do this a couple of times a year. :P
>
--- End Quote ---
I’ve got an external HDD I made with one of those kits you stick
a hdd in to make it work through a usb cable. Thing is, memory
sticks and sd cards hold more than the 50 gig drive and have in
the enclosure now.
[/quote]
I feel your pain, Jim. I used to have boxes and piles of
outdated electronics and computer gear. A few years back, I
hauled most of it to the recycling centre. Kinda wished I hadn't
in retrospect, as "vintage computing" is becoming a bit of a
thing now. Otoh, I was drowning in the stuff. It was really
getting in my way. Still, there are a few items I wish I still
had. :(
#Post#: 6425--------------------------------------------------
Re: Spent a large part of yesterday backing up all my digital
stuff from 2020
DIR By: AJ
Date: January 8, 2021, 7:27 pm
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--- Quote from: dinkleburg link ---
>
> [quote author=AJ link=topic=722.msg6423#msg6423
date=1610143311]
> [quote author=dinkleburg link=topic=722.msg6421#msg6421
date=1610117871]
> A task made more complicated by a flaky USB 3.0 card in one of
my (very lol) old PC's.
> This thing is so old that it still has a port on the mother
board for a floppy disk controller. :o
>
> Still have some more to do on the music pc, then I shall copy
it all on to another external drive for safe keeping at my
sister's place. That way, if my house blows up or something
stupid, I have another backup stored somewhere that hopefully
didn't blow up.
>
> I'd hate to lose my photos/movies/musical projects, but I'm
glad I only do this a couple of times a year. :P
>
--- End Quote ---
I’ve got an external HDD I made with one of those kits you stick
a hdd in to make it work through a usb cable. Thing is, memory
sticks and sd cards hold more than the 50 gig drive and have in
the enclosure now.
[/quote]
I feel your pain, Jim. I used to have boxes and piles of
outdated electronics and computer gear. A few years back, I
hauled most of it to the recycling centre. Kinda wished I hadn't
in retrospect, as "vintage computing" is becoming a bit of a
thing now. Otoh, I was drowning in the stuff. It was really
getting in my way. Still, there are a few items I wish I still
had. :(
[/quote]
I miss running my own batch files. Miss some of the old C-64
games as well. The first sequencing program I had ran on a C-64
with a midi interface. It was totally crude, and required
concentration to actually get anything done with it. Almost all
the songs on my SoundCloud page were created, at least the
keyboard parts, on that old C-64. My output since moving into
modern computers has been nearly squat. That says something
about me and technology I guess.
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