My current laptop is the 3rd generation. A few days ago, I had a chance to run my 1st laptop (2nd laptop has gone to my flatmate), and found quite a number of good old photos.
There is a little problem transferring these photos to my current PC. The old PC does not have CD burner. It can not connect to broadband either. Which leaves me the only way is to move them in to floppy disc(FD).
The capacity of floppy disc is 1.38 mega bytes(MB). There are at least 150 photos that each of them is about 600 kilo bites(KB). Yesterday I was busy re-sizing photos down to 200KB each approx. Today, finally I am ready to move them to FD, but then a new problem is found...
...My current PC does not have FD drive.(sad)
Oh my goodness, FD that had been extremely usefull in the good old time, has been kicked out and replaced by CD/DVD. This is shocking... Wait a moment! My flat mate! He has a desktop PC in his room that has FD drive, and furthermore, a CD burner. So the photos can be transfered via FD to his PC, then to my PC via CD. Perfect!
But anyway it is not the best way to transfer data now a days. Maximum photos I can put into FD is 7. I had dual task using 2 FDs with my old PC and my flatmate's PC for quite a long while.
Meantime, my old PC was flozen several times, and some photos had broken data. It wasn't so smooth opperation. When all the photos finally transferred into my flatmate's PC, I just couldn't resist making the "fanfare" sound that is recorded to my new PC, to welldone me.
In the end I had at least 20 round trips between my room and my flatmate's room. No more excersise today...
Anyway thanks Floppy Disks! You are turly wonderful.
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Hi Hideki.....Hope all is well with you and your pics have been transferred from your old PC to the new one after travelling....OLD PC - FD - Friend's PC - CD - New PC.....did i get that routing right ??? or did I miss a stopover or two..... Gosh ...I'm tired....This looks like a round-the-world to me... :D
You are being missed by all of us here.....Whenever I get stuck or in doubt...my mind says...WISH HIDEKI WAS HERE....but then remember your advice...curiosity , teamwork etc etc...& then more often than not I find the solution with some hardwork... What's the latest with you ?? Howz Dublin ?? Be in touch... Tk care :)
I am completely lost...why don't you keep things virtual!!
Since you have taken a huge task to transfer pics...take this suggestion...look for all the I/O channels for your next laptop(4th one)which are compatible with your 3rd gen laptop.
Hi Charu
Photos are at the last stopover point, waiting to be burned to CD. I saw a DVD "AASHIQ" with Ralf at my place. I miss India. Dublin? Cold and wet as usual.... Charu, I am proud of you, having an initiative of one of the most complicating things in the known universe - Rates. Take care too.
Hi Kishore
I wish you were here helping me transporting these bloody photos. I'm sure you would do better than me doing so many RT within a day (I should join a mileage club thingy?) Well, at least I scceeded to make you completely lost. Ha ha..
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