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Odd, pretty sure my non smart phone is an e1200 and it works fine on the new Asda network (now Vodafone?)
When does old stuff become obsolete.
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matticus
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Electricity will be obsolete soon.
Chris S
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I've just checked and mine is a GT-E2121B. It goes into an infinite cycle of booting and then rebooting. It still boots up OK with other SIMs so I assume it's something to do with the way that the ASDA network piggybacks on the Vodafone one.
(My newer Nokia 105 doesn't have this problem)
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Likely phone is defective as I’ve yet to see a phone that won’t boot up with or without a SIM card.
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oo - a 105
The Samsung E1200 is a great little phone - like it so much I bought another for a tenner off the bay - eventually of course 2G will get switched off and I'll give it to a museum.
Chris S
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The phone will boot up without a SIM card or with a Lyca Mobile one. Unfortunately their PAYG rates are extortionate.
Chris S
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Yes - I owned a E1200 a few years ago (which is why I got the names mixed up)oo - a 105
The Samsung E1200 is a great little phone - like it so much I bought another for a tenner off the bay - eventually of course 2G will get switched off and I'll give it to a museum.
I once had to retrieve some files from floppy disk, in 2001. I had to dust off an archived pc with 5 1/2 " drive, running old microsoft OS. It was a museum piece.Floppy disks are obsolete. Hand-made bicycles from the 20th century will be ridden in the 22nd, if we are around to ride them, that is.
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My loudspeakers would be obsolete by these definitions. But they still play music from my phonograph records, which evidently are not, yet!
You were lucky they weren't Iomega Zip disks
(the worst storage format of the modern era imho - my Zip drive and disks didn't last long before failing)!I was a late adopter - my first PC was an 8086 with a 20 Mb HDD and a 3½" floppy drive - DOS 5 was the latest OS it could run; this was when most people were upgrading to WIN 95. My first Windows PC was a 486SX running WIN3.1 in 1997. I stopped putting a 3½" FDD into my PCs when the MB stopped supporting them (later than 2001). I still have optical drives in my PCs but I rarely use them. I gave up on Windows in about 2008 iirc and now run Linux.
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shudder - I paid a hell of a lot of money for stacks of those (my Gateway computer came with one) to backup important stuff on my hard disk and then got the dreaded "click of death".You were lucky they weren't Iomega Zip disks
classic33
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I've still got two of those, and the discs.You were lucky they weren't Iomega Zip disks
I was a late adopter - my first PC was an 8086 with a 20 Mb HDD and a 3½" floppy drive - DOS 5 was the latest OS it could run; this was when most people were upgrading to WIN 95. My first Windows PC was a 486SX running WIN3.1 in 1997. I stopped putting a 3½" FDD into my PCs when the MB stopped supporting them (later than 2001). I still have optical drives in my PCs but I rarely use them. I gave up on Windows in about 2008 iirc and now run Linux.
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Ah the rare 5 1/2 “ size compared to the standard 3.5” floppy disk drives in most PCs.
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Digital obsolescence is a real danger where files are archived in a format that is no longer actively used. The software to read it may no longer exist or only on computers that themselves will fail sooner or later.
Do they still work? I can't remember how long mine lasted before they gave up the ghost (click of death) but I didn't use them regularly - they were to back up documents. Luckily I discovered their failure before the back-ups were needed. I went to optical discs then (and a lot of those failed after a few years too - delaminated).
