Re: Camera Card Reader

Chris Malcolm wrote:
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I was wondering how soon cars would come into it. Well, I don't know
about the US, but in the UK unleaded petrol (gas) has now gone, so
if you had an older car you did have to upgrade.

But you didn't have to upgrade by buying an entire new car. All you
had to do was to upgrade the valve seats. There were and are plenty of
places which do such conversions. Standard engineering work. And you
didn't have to do that upgrade immediately. You could get by for a
long time by adding your own extra non-lead additives to your tank at
fill up time.

I don't know anyone who actually had a workshop upgrade done - most simply ensured that their next car was lead-free compatible. And do people change cars more often than PCs?

You don't have to upgrade to Vista, you can wait until you get your next PC. Digital TV is another example. In both the US and the UK soon analog transmissions will be a thing of the past, so you /have/ to upgrade either by getting a new TV or a set-top-box. The 405-line to 625-line transition was an earlier example.

Whilst it's not at all an exact parallel, and while the timescales are rather different, dropping support for earlier technologies is not unique to computing.

Having said that, it was only recently that my last Windows NT 4 system was decommissioned, and I still have Windows 2000 in active service, working as well as it ever did.

Happy Christmas!

Cheers,
David

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