Oldie Newbie

Lurker here for a few years. Just now jumping into the pool.  I just turned 70yrs young.  Been 'using computers' for nearly 40 years. Really. Earlier it was "Bookeeping Machines" > "Mini Computers" then wow! An 8088. Actually it's more like 'abusing computers'.  Crunching numbers, maintaining general ledgers, spreadsheets up the ying-yang (MS MultiPlan - Excel's grandfather) and "What's a Database for ?" she asked long ago.

My current laptop W10 Lenovo is gonna be 9 years old in July! (I think that's like 90 in computer years) I'm retired now so not doing any crunching/db stuff anymore.  Bought a new system months ago when I thought Lenny1 was gonna crap out any day. Nope... still in awe every morning when 'he' actually boots up.

I am totally intimidated by the thought of setting up a new system. Obviously I have tons of data on Lenny, most of it should be archived at best (thumb/flash/external hard drives?) Argh.   Took me months to even open the box Lenny2024 was in. Still it's wrapped up in another room. Looney? Yep.

Priorities - Lenny2 not to be loaded down with crapola. Even the camera (electrical tape now on Lenny1), mic, touchscreen etc. I may get there in the future (!) when I'm ready. I mean - I have a really nice fairly new smart phone. I use it for....for...phone calls!  Ok...son does text, and there's FedEx and the pharmacy. Still....a full charge can last a week.

Geeze! This went on for way too long. If you got this far, any hints, links, etc. Here or elsewhere,  will keep me busy for a while.

Looney Oldie Newbie SUE

To me, sounds like you are 70 years young.

You're in good company here...many are retired (or should be by now) .

Welcome to the "in-crown", except we are all trying to figure out what it is that we are "in".

Jump in on a thread any time you feel like it!

If you don't mind a suggestion based on hundreds of posters over the years that got their hearts broken, as follows:

You said:  "I have tons of data on Lenny". Yeah, what you want is to back  that data up, double-especially on a 9 year old computer.

You might want to post in at the security discussion forum with a "how to" post.

Welcome to BC!

Hi, Welcome to BC.

Age is only a number I try and tell myself, body disagrees with me @69..lol