Posted on 11/13/2007 11:19:21 AM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
Yes, it’s just a LOT thinner than you remember it.
Too bad I'm not!.........
lol.....good one.
bttt
I started in 1980 on a Timex-Sinclair with a (wince) tape-drive. No disk storage at all. Then graduated "up" to a commodore vic 20 with a (wince) tape drive. Then graduated up to a c64 which DID in fact have a disk drive (rattled a LOT though).
Finally, I hit the big leagues and got an 8086 pc with 640 memory, 20 meg drive and 4 color cga as a christmas bonus from work.
Sigh.
LOL. Looking at my next one even as we speak. Q6600 Intel quad-core with 4 gig of memory and a 1 terabyte drive.
My how times change over a short 27 years.
Well, I'm off to take my anti-alzheimers meds now.
8^)
Me too, only I still have a closet with a few of them. I finally threw some of them out a year or so ago from the early - mid 90's.
Whether you need all the latest technology depends on your use and your fancy. I bought a low-end Emachine 1600 with 40 Gig HD years ago. I’ve upgraded the RAM to 512.
I stay on the web over 40 hours per week, trading currencies. Apart from email and net stuff, I write fiction and have have three novels, assorted short stories and the student papers from three MA’s on my HD>
I’ve downloaded a potful of programs and video movies (don’t ask, don’t tell) and still have about 13 gigs of space.
I have a bunch of bloated Windows stuff like Office and Publisher, but recently got rid of Adobe Reader (23MB)for the free Fixit Reader (2.3MB)
By the way, since I upgraded from Win98 to XP Pro, I’ve had almost flawless operations for my purposes on this low end machine.
No games support used to be the problem with Apple machines back in the day.
If enough people use your operating system, software to run on that system will come. And if it is open source... WOO HOO!
This could be very interesting.
My old DOS based games won't run on it, but there are lot of games out there that will run on Linux.
As far as sophistication, shutting off Vista isn't going to be intuitive even to an XP user, so the migration from 98 or XP to Linux isn't going to be that much harder than the migration from 98 or XP to Vista.
bttt and flr, thanks Ernest.
I need to get cleaned up and check out Walmart....
Any links for that fixit reader? I found a few references to fox-it reader, not sure if thats the same thing.
I agree. I tried dual boot with Ubuntu 7.10 and it is definitely not plug n play.
I gave up on dual boot long ago...just get a decent KVM switch and a cheap case....
I’ve been using Fixit rather than Adobe for probably six months, in a business setting.
Faster, smoother, better in every way. Jettison the resource hog known as Adobe Reader and GET THIS instead.
That is an excellent Youtube demo.....I am running Beryl on Sabayon 3.3...and had it running with PC-BSD 1.4 beta...
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