[AT] OK boys, I need help!! OT Computer stuff

[charlie hill]

Ah that makes sense.   I don't have a DVD burner, just cdrw.

Charlie
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
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Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 9:43 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] OK boys, I need help!! OT Computer stuff


> Hey, Charlie.  When you start cutting your own DVD's, you'll find out
> how necessary that hard drive is.  I burned a 1.5-hour video program a
> few weeks ago.  The end file size was only 2.6 Gigs, but that was AFTER
> compression.  The uncompressed file was over 9 Gigs, and was threatening
> to completely fill the remainder of a 15 Gig partition that was
> supporting the whole OS, a bunch of still image files, and about 100
> music files.  (BTW- this is all original work, not pirated files off the
> Internet or other sources.)  When you consider that 9 Gigabyte disks are
> currently available for home use (four hours of video programming) and
> that 18 Gigabyte DVD disks are already part of the published standard,
> then 80 Gigabytes starts to look like a minimal system.  As soon as I
> can find the "right price" on one of the super-size external hard drives
> (120 Gigabytes or larger) I'll be using one of those for storing and
> manipulating the thousands of still image files I'm in the process of
> digitizing and restoring for the family.
>
> BTW- My family were farmers.  So, there is a smattering of tractor
> photos in among the candid shots of people.
>
> Speaking of tractors, is anybody going to the Bickett estate auction
> this Saturday in Morganfield, Kentucky?  There are about 100 tractors
> going on the block, starting with a 1917 IH 8-16, a Keck-Gonnerman
> steamer...
>
> The article in the paper this week says they plan on starting all the
> tractors at 8:30 AM, running them for an hour and 15 minutes, and then
> shutting them all down before the sale starts.
>
> Larry
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of charlie hill
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 7:35 PM
> To: Antique tractor email discussion group
> Subject: Re: [AT] OK boys, I need help!! OT Computer stuff
>
> Hi Don,  Why do you say 80 gig hard drive?  I can see the 512MB RAM ( my
> notebook only has 256 and I plan to upgrade it) but I can't see where
> the
> average guy needs that much hard drive space.  Just curious.
>
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: "Don Shehi" <shehi at commspeed.net>
> To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 8:12 PM
> Subject: RE: [AT] OK boys, I need help!! OT Computer stuff
>
>
> >
> >
> > XP home version with at least 512MB of RAM and 80GB on the hard drive.
> Any
> > computer will run at it's best when it has a lot of memory and hard
> disk
> > space to work with.
> >
> > Don Shehi
> > Camp Verde. AZ
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com
> > [mailto:at-bounces at lists.antique-tractor.com] On Behalf Of Carl
> Tatlock
> > Sent: Thursday, March 11, 2004 3:52 PM
> > To: AT at lists.antique-tractor.com
> > Subject: [AT] OK boys, I need help!! OT Computer stuff
> >
> > I'm sorry to intrude with this plea for help, but I"m in a hurry-up
> that
> > is not of my own devising, so I need advice.
> >
> > I need to get a new computer-- STAT
> >
> > I need to get a new operating system-- I am running W98 SE.
> >
> > I have saved a lot of computer stuff from the ATIS list (which I trust
> > far more than a 17 year old compurter salesman.)   BUT I still don't
> > have an answer --even tho I reviewed the ones I saved-- mostly from
> last
> > summer.     I also just changed from Netscape 4.7 to Mozilla (thanks
> for
> > the tip Cecil) and love it..  But, back to the story.
> >
> > I am  researching and writing a n extensive  genealogy  project for my
> 3
> > children.  So far in 5 years I have about   850 pages put together.
> > That, and ATIS are the bulk of my work on computer.
> >
> > 98 SE is getting cranky.  I bought a  flash memory stick but even with
> > the driver CD it wouldn't stick in my computer.  Time to consider a
> new
> > computer and a new OP system.
> >
> > Where am I going with this long tale??   Right here.  What OS is
> > recommended:
> > 2000, or NT (home version)   ??    Come on guys--  All thoughts
> > considered.
> >
> > Tractor reference:   When I get a new computer, I will run over the
> old
> > one with the $#@%& Cub (if it doesn't stall it out)  ;-)
> >             Thanks,  Carl in VT
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