[AT] computer problems

[Mark Greer]

How does that external drive connect? USB or some other?
Mark

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Larry D. Goss" <rlgoss at evansville.net>
To: "'Antique tractor email discussion group'"
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Sent: Saturday, January 15, 2005 10:33 PM
Subject: RE: [AT] computer problems


> I figured a thumb drive wouldn't do what I needed, George.  They're
> limited to around 4 Gigabytes.  So last Father's Day, I went out and
> bought a 160 Gigabyte external drive that I can move from computer to
> computer to store images on.  The price was $130.  I'm doing a heck of a
> lot of digital imaging, and some of the files are getting a bit hairy.
> It's not unheard of for me to generate an image in the 800 Megabyte
> range -- too big to fit on a CD disk. I have a wall map that I'll take
> the time to scan one of these days. Using my HP 4670 scanner and the
> software that comes with it, I can merge a whole bunch of smaller scans
> together to make one image out of dozens of individual files.  I'm
> scanning an 1863 World Atlas (folio style) using six scans per map.  The
> software merges them together seamlessly and automatically.  In case
> you're wondering why I want such a big map, the wall map shows every
> county in the US -- location, boundaries, railroads, canals, county
> seats.  I need that for reference when I'm working on genealogy.  The
> World Atlas gets down to every township in the whole country as they
> existed at the time of publication -- complete with the name and
> location of the town center.  That's also invaluable information.
>
> I go to tractor shows, stand in one spot, and snap a bunch of pictures
> of what I can see.  Then I have the computer merge them all into a
> panoramic image that I can pan around on and view the scenes close-up. I
> wish I would have known I could do this when I saw the Dain on display
> up in Iowa a few years back.  With that capability, I could have stood
> next to it and taken a series of shots with nobody else between me and
> the tractor, and then stitched them together on the computer.
>
> Look for the external hard drives to be on sale at your local
> electronics store during the middle week of June again this year.  I run
> mine through a UPS at all times, but I also "hot plug" it from system to
> system at will.  Since I don't have an operating system on it, I'm not
> bothered by the specter of boot up problems.
>
> Larry