Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2014/11/20
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Ted, If they are 3 1/2" floppies, you can buy an external USB drive for about $20. Then you can copy them to your hard drive at your leisure. Walmart and the office supply places have them. If they are zip drives you can buy a USB reader on ebay for not much more. I wonder what Walmart stores in Canada are like... Ken On 11/20/2014 12:45 PM, Ted Grant wrote: > Hi Ken, > > Thank you Ken most kindly for your transfer offer. However I wouldn't think > of putting you through the misery of doing so given the numbers of discs. > > It seems my previous description of 2" X 2" disc wasn't correct as they > were > referred to 3.5 floppies. > > Thanks again > cheers, > ted :-) > > -----Original Message----- > From: LUG [mailto:lug-bounces+tedgrant=shaw.ca at leica-users.org] On > Behalf Of > Ken Iisaka > Sent: November-20-14 10:23 AM > To: Leica Users Group > Subject: Re: [Leica] TECHNICAL QUESTION?? ANSWER PLEASE??? > > 2"x2"? Before CDs and memory sticks? > > These 2"x2" square things I know were called "slides" but each only carried > one image. > > Or, are you referring to CF or Compact Flash? The first ones contained a > tiny little hard disk, but soon replaced by flash memory. > > 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 >> > >