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Bikram Vohra
JournalismPakistan.com
January 1, 2014
Another year. Ho hum. More inventions, newer models, hi-tech applications. Everything you have (including yourself) is that much older, that much out of date.
So, yesterday, doing a bit of cleaning up so we could go to the roof and watch the big fireworks display, I find a box full of floppy discs. For the young, these were the original DVDs and CDs and little black squares that you shoved into your pre-laptop era desktop and saved your stuff. And I am looking at them and thinking, good Lord, there must be a million things there on those tapes that would be useful besides being part of my history.
I call a friend who is a computer genius and ask him how one moves material on a floppy disc to a modern computer that has no aperture for it.
He laughs and says well, I really have no idea.
But you are a computer genius.
That doesn’t mean I know about Commodore 64, says he, no one uses floppy discs.
I know that, I reply with as much grace as is possible, but what do I do with the stuff on them.
Throw them away, he suggests, you won’t get a floppy disc machine anywhere unless you have an old one at home.
I don’t believe this. There must be some way to get that stuff off the disc or is it disk…I have forgotten.
Anybody out there have a solution?
(The writer is a Senior Editorial Advisor of Khaleej Times and the paper’s former Editor. He has also been the Editor of Gulf News, Gulf Today, Emirates Today and Bahrain Tribune)
If my call is so important to them, why don’t they answer it for 22 minutes?
How come when I want to, but something specific online is the only item out of stock.
When I get into a queue or lane going fast, the moment I get in, it becomes the slowest and refuses to budge.
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