I guess that I\u2019m getting old; my life is really “old school” now. I no longer stay up with techno-trends; I don\u2019t have a smart phone, don\u2019t have a kindle or i-pad, and I don\u2019t anticipate getting one anytime soon.<\/p>\n
I have two computers at home; one is 10 years old, the other 11. I just did a disk clean up and back up, and remembered that if I ever have to replace a bad hard drive, I\u2019d need a 3.5 inch floppy boot disk with a Ghost program on it. I had a floppy sitting around \u2013 but of course, when I tried it, it was corrupt. Five years old, gone corrupt. Maybe I’m going the same route.<\/p>\n
My Ghost 2003 software lets me burn new recovery disks \u2013 floppies, not CD\u2019s. I found some other floppies, but they were all bad. So I went to the local Staples to buy some fresh ones. Guess what? They don\u2019t sell them anymore. Well, I went on Ebay and bought a box of 10 Verbatim floppies for $12. Goodness, you could get 50 DVD\u2019s for that. But OK, maybe Verbatim floppies will last 3 or 4 years — let’s hope. Maybe by then I’ll have a new computer. <\/p>\n
(But to be honest . . . I really don’t know why I need one. My HP Compaq with XP and a DSL connection seems to do everything I need it to.) <\/p>\n
Perhaps I’m becoming obsolete on my job too. In a few years, if not months, they may not need what I know how to do anymore. Some super-duper enterprise software package that does it all will come along and will make all of my reports and Access mini-data applications — yes, you guessed it — OBSOLETE. If I lost my job tomorrow, I\u2019d be lucky to get a supermarket job at $8 per hour. My computer skills are over 10 years old. <\/p>\n