Serves me right

[O.C.]

Just thinking back to my old BBC "b" with 51/4" floppy disc............jeez! Thanks heavens things have moved on! 
How many FD's equates to a 64 micro SD card!

"Floppy discs"  I'd forgotten all about them ~ things certainly have moved on   

[O.C.]

new lap top has arrived, all that remains now is to get it all set up, which may not be as straightforward as it seems

So for now I'm still using my tablet, which I've now got used to

Has anyone got experience of Windows 10 and its performance in forums ? 

[virginiajim]

"Floppy discs"  I'd forgotten all about them ~ things certainly have moved on   

The older business systems that I used to work with used 8 in floppies...even had a magazine loader for them.

[Phill_York]

Windows 7 was great on laptops and terrible on tablets. Windows 8 was great on tablets and terrible on laptops (8.1 improved it to just bad). Windows 10 is great on both :-)

You should look at OneDrive for a backup solution, especially for multiple devices. For £7 per month you get 1TB of backup for 5 people and full office suite for 5 devices.

I don't work for, or sell, Microsoft by the way :-)

[snowy]

The older business systems that I used to work with used 8 in floppies...even had a magazine loader for them.

found this on techrepublic.........................How many floppies to make 1 gigabyte!
8" floppy: 1024mb = 4000 disks 5.25 - 360: 1024 = 2844 Disks 3.5 - 720: 1024 = 1422 3.5 - 1.44: 1024 = 711 At this rate to carry around the equivalent of the 32gb thumb drive on my keychain it would mean carrying 22756 3.5" disks!
Cant recall what involves bits or bytes, but a awful lot of media!

Tell the kids how lucky they are today eh! 

[virginiajim]

I remember when there were no PCs.  People were happy to have electric typewriters.  Just the other day my wife and I were in an antique store and I saw an old IBM 224 dictation device.  Used a magnetic tape loop to store the voice recordings.  I used to work on those.

[O.C.]

I remember when there were no PCs.  People were happy to have electric typewriters.  Just the other day my wife and I were in an antique store and I saw an old IBM 224 dictation device.  Used a magnetic tape loop to store the voice recordings.  I used to work on those.

Eee by gum when I were a lad Jim, we had no heating and frost inside our bedroom windows, ..........actually that last bit is totally true.   

Your points are well made,  we take for granted what todays technology provides for us, I recall the arrival of slide rules and how they 'modernised ' mathematics.   

I will be spending some time tomorrow familiarising myself with Windows 10, the only post that I've made on here with the new laptop wouldnt allow me to apply my usual Blue font colour

Really interesting statistics there snowr0 thanks for sharing     

[virginiajim]

Still have my slide rule and the leather case it came in....have no clue on how to use it anymore.

[PRD]

Computers lead to redundancy!

[virginiajim]

Down with the establishment!

[Charlie747]

Computers lead to redundancy!

Down with the establishment!

Are we now talking about VAG ? 

[PRD]

Luddites know the way!

[virginiajim]

Are we now talking about VAG ? 

VAG - Volkswagen Audi Group ?

[Charlie747]

VAG - Volkswagen Audi Group ?

Yep.........the've got creative IT ..........or so they say............funny how the rest of the worlds motor manufactures are so quite on this subject 🤔 ................stones and glasshouses comes to mind 

[virginiajim]

Well, well, well...I chose wisely.   Here were my choices...

http://www.abbreviations.com/VAG