Pardon my RANT!
My sisters were always complaining that my mom's computer was "TOO
SLOW". I had previously replaced her older computer (IBM PC300PL -
Pentium 3, Windoze98SE) with an IBM Netvista (Pentium 4, WindozeXP Pro)
& copied all her important stuff over from the older computer.
Recently they decided that still wasn't good enough, so they
unceremoniously stuffed it in a closet & replaced it with some piece of
shit the older of the two got from the IT guys where she worked. It's
even slower than the Netvista partly because it's running WindozeVista
and more importantly because they LOAD IT UP WITH CRAP the same way they
did the other two computers.
There's not enough room left on the hard-drive for the swap file. The
"new" computers were only faster until they filled the hard-drives with
junk.
And if they think I'm going to work on it for them, they can "GFY".
They've got it set up so I can't even install the automatic updates for
security patches.
Mom doesn't really need a computer any more. She only wanted one so she
could run AOL for email back & forth with her sister. My aunt died last
year and mom no longer has anyone she wants to email.
But, as Arlo Guthrie says about half-way through "Alice's Restaurant",
"That's not what I came here to talk about...
When they dumped mom's computer into the closet, they didn't do anything
to retrieve mom's photos of family & grand-kids. And somehow they've
managed to erase the photos I'd brought over to the Netvista from the
PC300PL, so I have to recover the photos from both computers.
Both computers have CD-ROM drives & USB ports. Neither has a writable CD
drive. The Win98SE computer doesn't have drivers for ANY of the USB
thumb drives that I have. I searched the net for legacy drivers, but so
far NO JOY! I have to figure out a way to get the photos that are still
on the PC300PL without being able to use a USB thumb drive.
But I have a plan!
I've got a USB hard-drive dock. All I have to do is remove the hard
drives and attach them to the docking station.
Except that I need the MOLEX cable to power the drives, and I don't have
one. Gotta' go to the computer store and get one, and it's just started
sleeting.
The drives from the PC300PL are nominally 20GB (I had added a second
drive for storage & there are photos on both drives. I don't know if
it's worth buying external enclosures for them, but I probably should
sooner rather than later because they're both IDE & I don't know how
long IDE enclosures will still be available.
Thank you for your time.
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