Not trying to be picky but... a CPU is not the hard drive. > > Varick wrote: > > We are replacing the CPU on this computer (just got this one in July and > > I lost lots of stuff - particularly my address book when we installed > > this one). > > > > > > > > Floreda > >

I know, but if a person was just replacing the CPU there should not be any loss of anything. We should all think of the CPU (Computer Processing Unit) as the box or outer covering of the other stuff. Being picky is how new terms are learned. You were not wrong in pointing that out. J Henry Terhune wrote: > Not trying to be picky but... a CPU is not the hard drive. > > >>Varick wrote: >> >>>We are replacing the CPU on this computer (just got this one in July and >>>I lost lots of stuff - particularly my address book when we installed >>>this one). >>> >>> >>> >>>Floreda >>> >> > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > PLEASE remove as much of the Original Message as possible when replying to a List Posting. Include only that part of the original message important to your reply. > > -- Joyce Ragels Tucson Arizona USA Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain

Now, I am going to get picky. The CPU is the Central Processing Unit, It is the most expensive chip on the mother board inside the computer case. The power supply, motherboard, hard drive, floppy drive, sound card and video card, modem, network adapter and probably a CD drive or two are installed in the computer case. That is the computer. It is not the hard drive or the CPU, it is the computer. The keyboard and the monitor are just computer peripherals, like the printer, scanner and speakers, but, in my opinion, a little more important. Alfred D. Eller http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~adelr/ ===================================== ----- Original Message ----- From: "Joyce Ragels" <jragels@comcast.net> To: <FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 10:43 AM Subject: Re: [FO] CPU replacement > I know, but if a person was just replacing the CPU there should not be > any loss of anything. > > We should all think of the CPU (Computer Processing Unit) as the box or > outer covering of the other stuff. > > Being picky is how new terms are learned. You were not wrong in > pointing that out. > > J > > Henry Terhune wrote: > > Not trying to be picky but... a CPU is not the hard drive. > > > > > >>Varick wrote: > >> > >>>We are replacing the CPU on this computer (just got this one in July and > >>>I lost lots of stuff - particularly my address book when we installed > >>>this one). > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>Floreda > >>>

Let me start all over and use the correct nomenclature. They are replacing the tower which I assume means "the whole thing". I am computer-challenged. At age 78 I do not have a peer group I can talk to about such things. Not an excuse but an explanation. Floreda -----Original Message----- From: Joyce Ragels [mailto:jragels@comcast.net] Sent: Wednesday, January 01, 2003 11:43 AM To: FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS-L@rootsweb.com Subject: Re: [FO] CPU replacement I know, but if a person was just replacing the CPU there should not be any loss of anything. We should all think of the CPU (Computer Processing Unit) as the box or outer covering of the other stuff. Being picky is how new terms are learned. You were not wrong in pointing that out. J Henry Terhune wrote: > Not trying to be picky but... a CPU is not the hard drive. > > >>Varick wrote: >> >>>We are replacing the CPU on this computer (just got this one in July and >>>I lost lots of stuff - particularly my address book when we installed >>>this one). >>> >>> >>> >>>Floreda >>> >> > > > ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== > PLEASE remove as much of the Original Message as possible when replying to a List Posting. Include only that part of the original message important to your reply. > > -- Joyce Ragels Tucson Arizona USA Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry. - Mark Twain ==== FAMILY-ORIGINS-USERS Mailing List ==== My very basic Windows beginners help: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~adelr/index.htm basic HTML: http://freepages.computers.rootsweb.com/~pasher/