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Sunday, April 24, 2005

Technology Lives!

I'm posting this using my brand new computer! Hurrah! Its a middle of the road E-Machine, model T3882 from Circuit City. I didn't buy the DVD burner because CD burning for storage seems to work just fine for me. I did buy and extra 512K of RAM that was on sale bring the total up to 768 mb for lots less than buying the machine that had just 512mb of ram and the DVD burner.

Remarkably, I dug out a network cable from my box of leftovers, plugged it into my cable modem, plugged the other end into the new machine, and I had connectivity! Ain't that cool?

I've been clearing old junk off the old machine all morning and I'm just about to run a piece of software, PC Relocator, that promises to transfer my old data to the new machine stress free. I gues I'll see shortly.

And Dad, if it works, I'll mail it down to you.

UPDATE: All's not perfect so far. The new 'puter does not seem to have the correct method of switching for the parallel port to make the transfer possible. I've emailed off for some help. In the mean time, I'm still working from two machines. If I can't use that transfer software, I have no idea how to move my MS Outlook Express emails off the old machine to the new one.

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