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back up with new computer
Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 9, 2008 11:36 AM

my old computer went down had to get new one and now i must learn to post all over again ,lost alot of things and pictures . I hope to start posting some pictures again soon .  BenSmile

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 9, 2008 12:44 PM

As for links what do you need?

What system are you running?

Check out ebay for Western Digital My Book 500g, what I use as a back up, was 2nd hand and 98.00 + shipping, came with everything.

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 9, 2008 12:58 PM
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Posted by ttrigg on Sunday, November 9, 2008 2:27 PM

Benny:

For the same money that Tadpole is talking about, stop by the Electronics dept at Walmart.  USB Hard drives for $30~$90.  Save photos, plans, links and such.  I picked up a 250 gig drive for $40, way more that enough space to put my data.  Easy to transfer data to second computer, just plug it in and it is ready to go.  I even put one on the wifes computer, she backs up all her volunteer work data and takes it with her to different meetings and can show/update/print as needed anywhere.

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Posted by dwbeckett on Sunday, November 9, 2008 3:56 PM

And to think my first home computer had a woping 512K of memory. and was called an IBM PC CLONE.

Dave

The head is gray, hands don't work , back is weak, legs give out, eyes are gone, money go's and my wife still love's Me.

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Posted by Anonymous on Sunday, November 9, 2008 5:50 PM

Mine was a Commador........

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Posted by Capt Bob Johnson on Sunday, November 9, 2008 6:16 PM

Tandy 1000 for me!

Ben, did you lose your address book?  If you did, I'll send you an e-mail so you can re-enter mine!

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Posted by ttrigg on Sunday, November 9, 2008 6:47 PM

Capt Bob Johnson
Tandy 1000 for me!

Radio Shack Mod 3 was my second computer (1980).  My first was a Radio Shack Computer  later to be refered to as the Mod 1 (1974) It had a 16 bit memory, with nothing that could be called data storage, disk drives had not yet been invented, we did develop a technique of getting data out to and from a tape.

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Posted by Anonymous on Monday, November 10, 2008 9:44 AM

TO all ,what i wanted to say was i'm back up on the forum with a new computer after the old one broke down ,i have back up on the new one, i must learn to work this new one,to much junk on it.ben

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