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again at £15.00 for full membership and £5.00 for associate members.
Please make cheques payable to “Melton Computer Club”
If you are unable to attend the meeting you can post a cheque to Derek at
the address in the email.

Last Month….

When a disaster happens in the home, what do you do? Steve Orrell faced
this dilemma a few months ago when the ceiling over his computing
workstation began to bulge dramatically with a collapse impending and a
whole lot of water about to descend on his computing equipment. Every-
thing was shifted out quickly but what to do now?

As his workstation area was going to be unavailable for up to 6 weeks
Steve needed to sort out some sort of alternative system. He had a couple
of old Pentium processor based laptops that had seen better days and were
a bit slow for heavy use and there seemed no justification for buying new
laptops for a short term solution.

After some investigation around the internet, he found a couple of I5 pro-
cessor based Lenovo ThinkPad laptops at a reasonable price. He bought a
nd
14” 2 generation I5 ThinkPad and then some months later augmented
this with a 12” 1st generation I5 ThinkPad. The old laptops were eventu-
ally sold on.

However, before this could happen, Steve needed to clone the data from
his old laptops to the new, so that he had his systems running on the new