WE have one of them external hard drive yokes for the computer.

Now, I’m not very well up on technology but can manage the computer fairly well. The whole concept of how ‘memory’ is stored, well, let’s say some things are mysterious and some mysteries are just beyond me.

It’s few years back since I saw a little ‘window’ below in the bottom left hand corner telling me the mailbox (presumably on the computer as we don’t have one in the house) was 99% full.

Not being familiar with such terms, a simplistic explanation was offered to me; ‘technological constipation’ -too much inside and no more room to add anything.

Well, twas then we got the External Hard Drive (EHD), I presumed, being External, it would be bolted onto the gable end of the house or near the back door. Having grown up in the last century, my grasp of such concepts has never materialised.

The EHD was installed and I was stunned to see it’s no more than a small black box which, unlike myself and most humans, seems to have virtually unlimited capacity. So the stuff on the computer is transferred as if by magic to the black box and there it remains and can be recovered apparently at the press of a button!

Sounds too good to be true, but there you have it. I’m a bit like Doubting Thomas and wonder still ‘how one small box can carry all it knows’! What if there’s a global crash? What if there’s an information black-out caused by an asteroid colliding with a paranormal digital freakish electrical gravity loop? Or a worldwide memory virus?

I know, you might say, if we considered all those possible computer glitches and doomsday scenarios, no one would ever put a finger on a keyboard, never mind trust an app or an android.

I’m old fashioned and not ashamed or embarrassed by that condition. For that reason, I still place my trust for........

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