Favorite computer external storage device.

[HopeHoops]

Poll question: Favorite computer external storage device.

Ah, so many to choose from...

[Brother Buzz]

1. Email

Back when I had a dinosaur computer with NO memory, I resorted to emailing myself stuff I wanted to save. It worked well enough, plus I had the benefit of being able to retrieve the material anywhere.

[HopeHoops]

2. Been there, done that. But you're at the mercy of the company if you don't download it locally.

Fucking AOL cut off all of the web sites a few years ago - BOOM! Fortunately, I had all of it on local storage.

[Brother Buzz]

3. That was then, this is now

Today, our favorite external computer back-up device is our seventeen-year-old son.

[deucemagnet]

4. Get Dropbox!

It's free and syncs to all of your computers and devices. You can also do file sharing on it if you need to collaborate on documents. It's also great for moving small files (like ebooks and wallpapers) from device to device.

For larger files, though, I love my 1TB external hard drive.

[Bucky]

5. At work they're making us use Googledocs now

It's probably a good idea, but it's new... and so I hate it.

[freshwest]

6. 1TB MyBook

:shrug:

[pokerfan]

7. wow, I've used everything on the list

except the 9-track (:shrug:)

Cassette tape on a TRS-80, 8 inch floppy on a PDP-11, Paper tape on a Kim-1:


One thing not listed was punch card which I used to program IBM-360s back in the day:

[Rabrrrrrr]

8. Punch cards. I ripped all my CDs to punch cards last year.

[HopeHoops]

9. Don't those jam up the CD player?

:shrug:

[Rabrrrrrr]

13. My CD player is a card reaching machine. :-)

[krispos42]

10. Ah, you YOU'RE responsible for Amazonian deforestation

:D

[Rabrrrrrr]

14. Just doing what I can to make more space available for cattle.

It's my greatest act of patriotism.

[krispos42]

19. And I'm doing my best to eat all the cattle and solve the global-warming problem.

:D

[dimbear]

11. In theory, I could use the woodshed, but I just throw computers away.

There's no use storing them, they're worthless once they're outdated.

(Joke. Actually, I recycle.)

[Major Nikon]

12. The first computer porn I ever saw was loaded on a paper tape

Basically you ran the paper tape through the teletype and it produced the image using only ASCII characters.

It was impressive from the sense that someone actually had so little human contact and so much time on their hands to create such a thing.

[Rabrrrrrr]

15. lol - yes, I remember that from high school! We had a telex (I think that was it)

and some friends would sometimes print out those ASCII naked women.

telex isn't the word I'm looking for, though, I don't think - it was a typewriter like thing, with a wide sheet of paper in it, and we'd call up the computer at UW-Whitewater with the phone next to the machine, and then jam the headset into the modem cradle - the thing we had was a terminal, but instead of a monitor, everything came out on paper.

is that a teletype?

So long ago...

[Major Nikon]

16. A teletype is just a typewriter that's connected to a computer

The computer could also use it as a printer. Teletype is really a brand name, but they made so many of them their name is synonymous with the device. The ones I'm familiar with was the Teletype model 33 and model 37. A punch tape reader/writer was an accessory. They connected to the computer via a low speed serial connection, usually in the 150-300 baud range. Some also had acoustic coupler modems attached as an accessory.

[jakeXT]

17. ipod, because all my usb memory sticks I lent somebody never came back /nt

[Yavin4]

18. Real Men Use Punch Cards