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

[Ken Carney]

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
>>
>>
>>
>>
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