Well..
The beast lives.
Revisiting the saga of the dead machine. I opted for the ‘while you’re in there update it’ approach. So a new mother board, processor, and solid state drive are now operational.
I also reluctantly took the step to Win10, not so much because I like it (I find it usable but extremely annoying) but because in another 8 months I won’t have much of a choice when M$ kills off Win7.
Now I’m engaged in the task of getting stuff back where it belongs and deciding whether to update some of the main programs or keep the versions I have (which of course were obsolete the day I installed them as is everything in the computing realm.)
I also still need to ‘recover’ the remainder of my files - they’re not lost, just on the wrong hard drive now. Once I get everything off the old hard drive I’ll wipe it and keep it in the machine as storage. That will allow me to replace the ‘small’ drive that WinDoze is using for its system restore/backup storage (it’s full) and repurpose it into the Linux box. ;-)
Also need to retrieve (from the safe place that I will remember where they are - but probably won’t) the install disks for things like WordPerfect, Adobe Acrobat, MS Orifice, and PaintShop Pro. Don’t need then so much for the install - most of the stuff is downloadable - as for that minor item called ‘key code’ on the DVD package which allows me to prove I am a legitimate ‘owner’ and bypass the ‘trial’ period.
Thus, until I have everything crammed into the right location in the box, it will reside lying on its side on my project table.
And we are having a thunderous storm. It appears to have a wind component accompanying it as there are raindrops on both the nominal north and nominal south windows. A wet cat wants to bless my lap.
I refused him access and told him to go talk to his mother (AKA Beautiful Daughter) because she knows how to apply The Towel..
We’ve had a storm, too. I kept hearing rumbling, but it was clear blue skies out the front (south) windows, so I thought it was the Upnorth People banging around with their trash bin. Then I went to the back of the house and saw everything completely black to the north.
It didn’t rain much.
Word Perfect? Srsly?
Dude, I even got my father-in-law off that dinosaur and onto Open Office.
But, good luck finding the little frisbees.
Speaking of retro.
https://www.etsy.com/listing/678950516/retro-floppy-notebook?ref=hp_rv
My daughter is checking to see if there’s a market. The one on my desk gets a lot of attention, but I don’t know if she’s had any buyers.