OT help my computer is full

On 03/01/2015 16:25, Derek F wrote:
On 02/01/2015 17:34, Woody wrote:
If the OP has a few megs download Glary Utilities and run
it. You'd be surprised how much crap it finds suitable for
deletion.


Was it a wind up as the OP has not returned?
Derek
no not a wind up. i hit the wrong button on this newsreader.

On Mon, 05 Jan 2015 08:19:55 +0000
Indy Jess John wrote:

On 04/01/2015 23:24, Davey wrote:

Hmm. I remember the Ch. 3/4 switch, so that's right. It was on every
US device that fed a TV set. And I ditched my last analogue set some
years ago. My two current TV sets are both 4 years old, although the
designs might be older; but they do at least both have analogue
tuners. So do a trio of VCRs that are still hanging about.
But, as I say, this is not a high priority item.


My first thought was to connect into and old VCR and then make a
SCART connection to a modern TV.

It is an extra box to power, but it is quick and easy to set up and
will show whether there is still life in the ZX81.

Jim


Yes, when I get a round tuit, which will not before a while yet (a long
while). The setup is already in place, but the Sinclair is somewhere
deep in storage.

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Davey.

On Fri, 02 Jan 2015 14:40:16 +0000, Bill Wright
wrote:

Jon wrote:
On 02/01/2015 03:14 am, Bill Wright wrote:


Look lad, my first computer had a hard drive that held 40MB, and my
cousin, who know all about computers, said, "I don't know what the hell
you need all that space for!"


40MB, that were luxury!

Right then! When I were a lad my computer were a book of log tables and
a slate.


Strictly speaking, Bill, you were your own computer. The log tables
and slate were your peripherals (look up tables and (scratch) ram
I/O).

In Victorian times, the name 'computer' was a job description as in,
"See that fellow over there? He's a computer."
--
J B Good

On Friday, 2 January 2015 17:33:40 UTC, Bill Wright wrote:
Indy Jess John wrote:

Get a wireless keyboard and carry it.

Jim


"
I could wedge some shelf brackets down t'front of me britchers and rest
it on them...

Bill
"


I'm getting a message about unprintable characters when I try to reply
to this. I haven't put any swearwords or anything.

Bill

You must have the new government "parental controls" on, which took you reference to resting the keyboard on a shelf in your britches to imply that you were actually going to balance it on your e**** ****

In message , Johny B Good
writes
In Victorian times, the name 'computer' was a job description as in,
"See that fellow over there? He's a computer."

More recently than that. I once looked at a book on ballistics from the
late 1940s, when computers were still humans, who made use of electronic
calculators to assist them.

American usage may already have been different by then. I see that the
early US computer ENIAC was in full the "Electronic Numerical Integrator
And Computer", whereas the early British computer EDSAC was the
"Electronic Delay Storage Automatic Calculator".
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Johny B Good wrote:

In Victorian times, the name 'computer' was a job description as in,
"See that fellow over there? He's a computer."

No doubt he was an awkward bugger.

Bill

"Bill Wright" wrote in message
...
Johny B Good wrote:

In Victorian times, the name 'computer' was a job
description as in,
"See that fellow over there? He's a computer."

No doubt he was an awkward bugger.



Maybe he just didn't like opening windows?


I'll get me coat..................


--
Woody

harrogate three at ntlworld dot com

In message , Bill Wright
writes
Johny B Good wrote:

In Victorian times, the name 'computer' was a job description as in,
"See that fellow over there? He's a computer."

No doubt he was an awkward bugger.

That's why computers need debuggers.
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On Mon, 5 Jan 2015 21:57:26 +0000, John Hall
wrote:

In message , Johny B Good
writes
In Victorian times, the name 'computer' was a job description as in,
"See that fellow over there? He's a computer."

More recently than that. I once looked at a book on ballistics from the
late 1940s, when computers were still humans, who made use of electronic
calculators to assist them.


Much later than that in America.
In 1969, here in the UK, I joined a company which was a subsidiary of
Texas Istruments , and my job description was 'computer'.

Don.

On 02/01/2015 02:09, Gary wrote:
My c drive is full to bursting. and I need to do something about freeing
up space.

Computer running w7 with 1TB divided between 2 HDs but giving 3 'disks'.
the majority of my programs save data to either d or e and recently a
1.5TB usb HD. All 4 disks are now full.

I do have a new 2TB usb HD and 2 other smaler USB HD 1TB to use but I
realy do not know where to start as far as C drive is concerned. Is
there any utility or preferred reading covering this problem.

I did free up quite a bit about a year ago but that has evaporated ( and
a couple of things were not happy with me) . I really do not want to
break the computer or the programs that are on C.

Any help please.

Thanks in advance.

Gary


open file explorer, right click on your C: drive, left click on
properties, left click on drive clean up, let it do its thing and you
will have a list of items that can be cleared off the disk.
Also,and probably most importantly, there will be "clean up system
files" button, left click this and you will be given another list of
files which will allow you to choose what you want to get rid of.
There is a "more options" header which may also help.
I just did mine and it gave me the option to recover 7.04 GB.
Be careful you don't remove what you may need.

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