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#Post#: 6421--------------------------------------------------
Spent a large part of yesterday backing up all my digital stuff
from 2020
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 st
uff from 2020
By: AJ Date: January 8, 2021, 4:01 pm
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[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
[/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 st
uff from 2020
By: dinkleburg Date: January 8, 2021, 6:17 pm
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[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
[/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. :(
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Re: Spent a large part of yesterday backing up all my digital st
uff from 2020
By: AJ Date: January 8, 2021, 7:27 pm
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[quote author=dinkleburg link=topic=722.msg6424#msg6424
date=1610151445]
[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
[/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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