Excuse after excuse, it sounds like the person who refuses to buy a
new car because the old one only has 250,000 miles on it.
Back when I owned a computer with a floppy drive many of the disks
I'd had laying around the house for years refused to work. I don't
consider that media reliable either. Anything needed for the IRS
should be on paper, in safe deposit box, or just a safe. It sounds
like it's time to bite the bullet and upgrade, not just the hardware,
but the software as well. You'd probably be happier in the end anyway
with the improved performance. And I hope you're not comparing
yourself to the antiquated US government agencies, WE and Ma Bell. I
also have one of those old SCSI scanners...somewhere, along with a
newer AGFA, don't remember what it is, I haven't used it in years.
Over the last few years I've relied on all in ones. Saves desk space.
And they're cheap now. All in one color laser printer/scanner/copier/
fax under $450 at Costco.
Jeff
On Nov 8, 2007, at 1:27 PM, gerald wrote:
My new business program wants to see the old version before I load
it. I could just buy the new full version. only about 12-15K. the
old verson is on floppy. 7" floppy, or whatever the size of that
big one was. I have a drive that I plug into the machine. I have
not done it for a while, so am not certain the bios will see the
floppy if I have to transfer the thing by reloading.
I need foxpro. the version I have is on a floppy. it does not
transfer and load with a dvd.
my payroll program wants to see the old payroll program to ug. old
is on a floppy.
one of my scanners runs on an oddball extra slow scsi. funny plug.
I move the card. the scanner is a 12 x 18 heidelberg that does
about a zillion dpi. takes forever. the program that runs it came
as a box of floppies. large box at that.
western electric and bell ran the NYC telephone system on pre war
carbon switches in the mid 50's when I worked for them.......Pre
WWI !!!.
I think the FAA and the FBI are running on mainframes that are 20 or
so years old, and use tape backups from the same era.
the DoD refused for years to use laser printing.
lots of flash drives do not survive the day. would rather use
something that I thought was reliable.
for play at home it's one thing to use the latest tecnology. for
real business apps, nice to have something with a track history so
when the irs comes knocking, they do not want to her woops, it
worked yesterday.
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