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The last week has seen the end of my trusty Acer Netbook… 😥
Technology comes and technology goes, but when so much time has been spent with a single device, the experience can be pretty disarming for a writer.
You may recognise this as the unit I used to create my ‘Keep Calm and Write On’ logo (see bottom of the page).
I have no real way of calculating this for sure, but I must have written close to a million words on this faithful (wipes away a small tear) little device.
Fortunately, almost everything on the little hard drive had been backed up and is in no danger of being lost. However, the times spend pounding the pint-sized keyboard will always remain with me, a considerable number of years in the 1999 to 2014 span of my ‘real’ writing.
The Netbook wasn’t my first writing device.
It followed the clunky Acer Notebook (Laptop) which was heavy and sucked the life from its battery in under sixty minutes.
Then there was the quirky, palm-sized HP Jordana. Tiny (like peering through a letterbox at a billboard) but with almost infinite battery capacity.
Sure, I could let the poor thing slip quietly away to Silicon Heaven (where all the pocket calculators go), but I’m strangely reluctant to put this significant episode of my fledgling writing career behind me.
I know, but technology can be revived, right? I mean, it’s had a new screen, two new batteries, some extra memory and a replacement modem. What’s a little more TLC?
image credit funny-pictures.picphotos.net
Am I alone in not wanting to move on? Has anyone else found themselves stymied when their favourite piece of technology has shuffled off its coil? Have you successfully divested yourself of it, or does it still languish in a cupboard somewhere, a reminder of happy times?
Or am I just being over semi-mental?
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And so, for possibly the last time,
Write On…
So long and thanks for all the memory,
(all 2048Mb of it)
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May 14, 2014 @ 15:08:10
I still miss my old 486/33 running DOS…
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May 15, 2014 @ 11:19:59
Ah, the old 486…
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Apr 26, 2014 @ 00:15:09
I am right there with you… my poor little Acer was trying to die this week to! I mean I’ve already had to do one factory reboot, the mouse pad doesn’t want to work any more, but darn it I didn’t want to call it quits when it caught the plague this week. It was nearly on cue, Microsoft stops supporting XP and windows security essentials quits working on it and bam, it catches 3 viruses. I didn’t give up I have nursed it back to life one more time! I can’t stand to see the little thing go!
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Apr 26, 2014 @ 11:39:50
I have several ‘unloved’ Acers on watch on eBay and hope to acquire enough spares to create a ‘Robocop’ hybrid and keep our cybernetic relationship alive. 🙂
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Apr 25, 2014 @ 22:25:38
Aw, Kryten! Nice that you threw a Red Dwarf image in there at the end.
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Apr 26, 2014 @ 11:41:03
Old Eraser head has such an adorable range of expressions. I couldn’t leave him out!
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Apr 25, 2014 @ 16:51:14
I still mourn my toaster. It was vintage and broken and we sold it on ebay, and I wish we’d kept it and mended it. There. It’s out. Sob. I loved all the Star Trek pictures too. Hope you get a worthy replacement for your Acer.
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Apr 25, 2014 @ 17:57:49
Selling on a trusty gadget is always hard. The thought that someone else might be enjoying its virtues can engender a form of jealousy.
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Apr 25, 2014 @ 18:38:54
Especially when the new one is so rubbish
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Apr 25, 2014 @ 16:07:55
Another Star Trek fan–oh joyous day. I met David Gerrold–who wrote that. He had great advice for writers.
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Apr 25, 2014 @ 19:52:58
I’ve enjoyed TOS, TNG, DS9, Voyager, Enterprise and the movies all my life. I am proud to state that I have seen every ST movie on the silver screen rather than only on DVD and hope to continue the run until whenever.
Nice to meet a fellow Trekker. LLaP!
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Apr 25, 2014 @ 22:04:36
Got every one of the acronyms!
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Apr 26, 2014 @ 11:41:34
Lol. You closet geek, you! 🙂
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