RE: Dumpster diving? (was B20) -- MIDRANGE-L

PC-DOS is still being sold? Wow...

On Wed, 7 Apr 2004 08:52:34 -0700 (PDT), "James H H Lampert"
<jamesl@xxxxxxxxxxx> said:
> > Some (probably Large) number of places, (or even programmer's looking
> > for dev machine, or extremely small shops,) that can't afford even
> > archaic equipment of 5 or 10 years ago MIGHT be able to afford the
> > electricity (and maintenance headaches) to run one-a these things.
> 
> Then, too, there's a simple fact, one that the folks at Microsloth and
> Intel are constantly trying to obfuscate: "Technologically obsolete" does
> NOT mean "functionally obsolete." If it does what you need it to do, in a
> reasonably cost-effective way, then why replace it? The only reason why I
> got rid of my 16MHz V20 notebook in favor of the used 486 notebook
> (eventually two of them, but that's another story) I bought cheap on eBay
> was because the hard drive on the first notebook had died on me, and the
> screen was in somewhat lousy shape, too. The only reason why I got rid of
> my XT-class desktop machine in favor of a PC-DOS 2000/Linux dual-boot
> P2-class mini-tower was because I found myself increasingly relying on
> the
> notebooks instead (they're bigger and faster than the XT, just as the new
> machine is bigger and faster than the notebooks), the XT-class machine
> was
> on its third monitor (which I'd had to scrounge) and second hard drive
> (for which I'd had to have a custom hard-card made up by MegaHaus), and
> was starting to get flaky. The only new software I've bought for those
> machines in a decade has been PC-DOS 2000 and Red Hat Linux 8 (Publisher
> Edition), and since NOTHING I own has any version of Windoze on it, and
> nearly all the software goes back to the days when a 12MHz 286 was
> considered fast, everything performs at blazing speed.
> 
> If it ain't broke, don't fix it. And even if it is broke, don't fix the
> parts that aren't.
> 
> JHHL
> 
> P.S.: If you do pick up a used B20, or C04, or D02, then as long as it
> has
> at least V2R3, it'll run the latest release of QuestView.
> 
> 
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