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Post by warlock on Feb 15, 2015 14:48:11 GMT
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Post by GuiltySpark on Feb 15, 2015 15:50:17 GMT
The Future....
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Post by Admin_Vistamike on Feb 15, 2015 20:21:03 GMT
When it comes to floppies I still get requests to extract old data after clients 'find' them! Hence I keep and a usb floppy drive
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Post by warlock on Feb 15, 2015 20:46:09 GMT
Yep, I just hope the younger one's think ahead. many probably have no printed pics. Saved only on media that will become obsolete in the future.
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Post by Admin_Vistamike on Feb 15, 2015 23:58:17 GMT
Joe, remember being a flash git in the old days, carrying a couple of floppy disks in the old top pocket! 1.44mb each (good lord). However, most of it was 'just' data, transferring word or spreadsheet data from work to the then home pc, or merely as a backup. I remember buying an early digital camera, a Sharp, and copied over some snaps to the floppies. Interesting that the file sizes the were in kbs as opposed to the mbs we produce now and any movement was an avi. And the odd song you either copied from a cd or the then very slow internet(!).
But there was a case for the CD, 700mb and then DVD, 4.7gb. But the disks then cost a small fortune, Germany was still on the DM and Greece on Drachma and the Italians on the Lira. The French of course dealt with the then French Franc.
Many of us now carry 32 and 64gb flash drives but also portable drives, up to 2tb portable? Our internal drives can be 500gb to 1tb and our externals up to 4tb in one box. Crikey, times have changed so fast.
But the cost of this media capture is now cheap given the worth of our data needs / value.
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