Q: I have about 800 slides I took during a post-college, pre-grad-school road trip to Alaska in 1979. I would like to put it all on DVD(s) with music from the ’70s. I have both a Dell and a Mac.

You’ve got to get the doggone slides onto the computer before you can start thinking about slide shows, noted readers Chandler Peirce, Dorsey Yawn and others, Mr. H.