Thursday, April 09, 2009
This Way, I Won't Lose It...
So we were getting ready to leave for a short trip to visit my in-laws. I'm taking my laptop, and working on Frayed Knights (among other things) while I'm down there. But I needed to transfer everything for development over between my desktop and the laptop. While wireless is okay for this, I'd prefer a USB drive.
I used to have one. It was a nice, 2 Gig drive that I'd purchased back when 2 gig drives were hot stuff. I got a steal on it for only a little over $60. I'd used it for just this purpose, back then. But then it vanished. I didn't know what happened to it. I'd searched for it for months. Since it's been over half a year, I figured it was finally time to give it up and replace it.
I got a new 8 gig thumb drive for about $30. A good deal, especially for something four times larger than my missing thumb drive.
After putting everything (I HOPE!) I need on the drive, it was time to pack it all up for the extended weekend. I was looking for a safe pocket in my laptop bag where it wouldn't get lost or fall out. I found one pocket that I had completely forgotten about with a zipper and everything. It would be perfect!
And it was... deep. Deeper than I imagined. I rummaged around in there, and thought, "Wouldn't it be funny if that was where my missing USB thumb drive went?"
You can imagine what happened next.
D'oh. But hey, now I have two.
Have fun!
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I hate that. About a year ago my wife and I moved, and when I packed the PS2 I remember carefully placing the memory card somewhere it wouldn't get lost, and would be safe. But I just threw the PS1 memory card in a box with the rest of the electronics. Well, I've got the PS1 card, but I still haven't found the PS2 card.
As an old-school computer guy, I can't believe how cheap and easy these USB keys have made backing up and transporting data. I remember tape drives, IOmega "disks", even CDRs, all a big and somewhat expensive pain in the butt. Now, just plug in the USB key, copy stuff over, and you're set!
@Dariuou - Ouch. Yep. There are some CDs that vanished during a move years ago I still tell myself (two moves later) might still turn up... someday. I have no idea what dimension they disappeared into.
@gdunbar: Exactly! My first PC had a 40 *megabyte* hard drive. I was all excited about one day upgrading to a 240 meg HD. But they were so big, bulky, and expensive.
It doesn't feel like that long ago.
@gdunbar: Exactly! My first PC had a 40 *megabyte* hard drive. I was all excited about one day upgrading to a 240 meg HD. But they were so big, bulky, and expensive.
It doesn't feel like that long ago.
Heh, heh. I just had to comment. My first PC didn't have a hard drive at all. I just used 5 1/4 inch floppies to run programs and store data. But after a couple of months, I did install a 10 MB hard drive. That was sweet!
My first computer was an 8086 (not x86). It had a green screen, no hard drive, and used 8 inch floppy disks that held about 80K of data. I'm so glad those days are behind us.
Okay - so long as we're playing Graybeard Geek - my first computer (PERIOD) was a Sinclair ZX80. I used a cassette recorder for storage. 1K of RAM.
And yeah, the screen would blank out every time it processed a keypress. I learned to live with it. I can't say I miss that system very much. But then, I couldn't write a program much longer than, say, a page on the thing...
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And yeah, the screen would blank out every time it processed a keypress. I learned to live with it. I can't say I miss that system very much. But then, I couldn't write a program much longer than, say, a page on the thing...
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