[AT] Here we go again

[rlgoss at insightbb.com]

Right, Charlie.  External hard drives and CD's.  No internal hard drives.

There's more to it that that, but this is a tractor site, so I won't go into it.

Larry


----- Original Message -----
From: charlie hill <chill8 at suddenlink.net>
Date: Thursday, January 24, 2008 17:15
Subject: Re: [AT] Here we go again
To: Antique tractor email discussion group <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>

> Larry,  store all those pics on CD NOW.  I had about 
> 600 pictures 
> mysteriously disappear from my hard drive.  They were 
> vacation pictures I 
> took in Hawaii last Feb and I hadn't gotten around to putting 
> them on CD. 
> I think I already told the list about it.  The pictures are 
> still there but 
> 4 different software programs later I can't save them.  I 
> still don't know 
> what caused them to go away.
> 
> Oh by the way, Yahoo is about to lay off a few hundred 
> folks.  Seems My 
> Space and the other social networking sites are cutting into 
> their business 
> pretty hard.
> 
> Charlie
> ----- Original Message ----- 
> From: <rlgoss at insightbb.com>
> To: "Antique tractor email discussion group" 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 4:56 PM
> Subject: Re: [AT] Here we go again
> 
> 
> >I inow the feeling well, Farmer.  I'm keeping images on my 
> own computer, 
> >using Picasa2 (free from Google) to organize them, and then 
> burning CD's at 
> >will for people who are interested in seeing particular 
> collections.  It 
> >probably isn't the solution for everyone, but it works for 
> me.  The most 
> >recent project was the digital archiving of my mother's photo 
> album from 
> >1921-1928.  I digitized all 450 photos over Thanksgiving 
> weekend, sorted 
> >and captioned them, and burned about a dozen CD's for relatives 
> and friends 
> >and gave them away as late personalized Christmas gifts.  
> When it comes to 
> >tractors, I turn out a CD per year and give them away to other 
> collectors 
> >who are looking at the same brand and models.  The CD's in 
> that instance 
> >include not only photos but PDF files of historic literature as 
> well.  Once 
> >again, that may not be everyone's cup of tea, but it works for me.
> >
> > FWIW, a CD costs about 25 cents to reproduce.
> >
> > Larry
> >
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: Francis Robinson <robinson at svs.net>
> > Date: Thursday, January 24, 2008 15:37
> > Subject: Re: [AT] Here we go again
> > To: Antique tractor email discussion group 
> <at at lists.antique-tractor.com>
> >
> >>
> >>
> >> --On Thursday, January 24, 2008 6:28 AM -0800 Dave Ernst
> >> <shop at cccomm.net>
> >> wrote:
> >>
> >> > Just found that Epson Photo Center is closing and all pictures
> >> will be
> >> > deleted April 30th.
> >> >
> >> > At least there is a warning, not like Photopoint where I lost
> >> a lot of
> >> > good photos.
> >> >
> >> > So, lets start again, the pros & cons of whats out there 
> and a
> >> good site
> >> > to go to.
> >> >
> >> > Thanks in advance,
> >> > Dave E
> >>
> >> &&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&&
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> I just got a message last week from Sony Image Station that
> >> they were
> >> closing and will be deleting all pictures soon. I thought that
> >> it didn't
> >> matter to me too much since I had long ago quit using it 
> after I
> >> had
> >> started using the Epson Photo Center instead... Oh, well...
> >>
> >> It all kind of reminds me a comment I made that sort of ticked
> >> off a local
> >> newspaper editor. I have published a number of articles there
> >> over the
> >> years. After many years of long term editors the local paper was
> >> going
> >> through editors like an elephant goes through peanuts. I emailed
> >> him when
> >> they announced that he had been hired as editor and introduced
> >> myself and
> >> told him that I would come and meet him after he had been there
> >> long enough
> >> to look like he was going to be semi-permanent... He failed to
> >> see the
> >> humor in the comment...   :-)  He never did ask
> >> for any articles from me.
> >> :-)   I believe that there have been at least two more
> >> since that guy...
> >>
> >> What picture site will be next to go? Does Google have one?
> >> They are the
> >> new "power" on the web...
> >> I guess it's back to the shoe boxes.  :-)
> >>
> >>
> >>
> >> --
> >> "farmer"
> >>
> >>
> >> Francis Robinson
> >> Central Indiana, USA
> >> Robinson at svs.net
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