[Leica] TECHNICAL QUESTION?? ANSWER PLEASE???

[Ken Iisaka]

Oh, I don't remember how long it's been since I last had a computer with a
floppy drives. I am suspecting that, as John mentioned, they may be Zip
drives, which were about 4"x4". Floppies didn't have enough capacity to
hold one single image, really, but Zip drives did.

On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 10:45 AM, Ted Grant <tedgrant at shaw.ca> 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
> >
> >
> >
> >
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