Think about it ....
When I ran my bookkeeping business using a Texas Instruments 16-bit
Professional Computer with 256K memory & dual 320K FDDs, I could sit
down, place a diskette in the A drive, turn on the computer, and before
I could light a cigarette [which wasn't a mortal sin back then], the
non-compiled BASIC program was waiting for me to provide input. In
those days no one mentioned MHz ... you simply used the computer.
Today, with a Pentium 233MHz boasting 128Mb SDRAM and using a Fast SCSI
HDD with track-to-track scan times too fast to measure in any meaningful
way, I can stop to turn the computer on as I head for the kitchen, pour
myself a huge mug of coffee, refill the water in the coffee pot, get
some milk to make the coffee bearable, take the coffee back to my desk
and sit down and *wait* for the first screen of config.sys to appear on
the monitor.
I was looking at a Dell office machine with 100/10 NIC and 700MHz ...
all for less than $650, less still without windozeU, and I'm VERY
heartily tempted. But then I realized that if the pattern continues and
I got the new machine, I'd have to turn it on the night before so I
could use it in the morning!!
Think about it ...
l.d.
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