[Leica] STEVE

[Steve Barbour]

oh, Douglas I am sorry.  Not an iphone though,

steve


> On Nov 20, 2014, at 1:20 PM, Douglas Barry <imra at iol.ie> wrote:
> 
> That Steve's using an iPhone. Apparently, it hides comments in the main body of the text - very well, well, too well. Well, many of us think that. Nowadays, if you SNIP, you're a tech retard.
> 
> Yours, retardedly
> 
> Douglas
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Philippe" <philippe.amard at sfr.fr>
> To: "Leica Users Group" <lug at leica-users.org>; "Steve Barbour" <steve.barbour at gmail.com>
> Sent: Thursday, November 20, 2014 7:39 PM
> Subject: [Leica] STEVE
> 
> 
> Where's your message in all this?
> 
> Amities
> Philippe
> 
> 
> Le 20 nov. 2014 à 19:40, Steve Barbour <steve.barbour at gmail.com> a écrit :
> 
>> 
>>> On Nov 20, 2014, at 10:23 AM, Ken Iisaka <ken at iisaka.com> wrote:
>>> 
>>> 2"x2"? Before CDs and memory sticks?
>>> 
>>> These 2"x2" square things I know were called "slides" but each only carried
>>> one image.  ie  floppies...
>>> 
>>> Or, are you referring to CF or Compact Flash? The first ones contained a
>>> tiny little hard disk, but soon replaced by flash memory. these are an inch or 1.5 in   they can carry many images... ie CF cards
>>> 
>>> 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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>>> 
>>> 
>>> 
>>> -- 
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