Marten van de Kraats wrote:
>
> >Every now and then, I feel the need to blow off steam, and since this
> >seems like a good place to do so...
Freud would have done well to have discovered 'Compact Therapy'.
> >I am really tired at how the PC world has become so darn obsolescence
> >inducing. Daily, I see machines simply being dumped because "they aren't
> >current". Now, with Windows XP being introduced, even 500 mHz is
> >considered slow. MicroSoft has made keeping up with the Joneses the order
> >of the day.
EEEERRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! Yes, I agree. But, you see,
you'll have to have OfficeXP with its cleverly introduced
backwards-compatability flaws. Then everyone who has to communicate
with you will have to have it, etc., etc., etc. Bunch of lemmings ...
I am looking for a job:
Recruiter: "Could you please send me a *word* formatted copy of your resume?"
Me: "No, sorry, I don't own Word. I'll be happy to get you a
WordPerfect, StarOffice, ClarisWorks, ASCII, etc., etc., etc.
formatted copy."
Recruiter: "We'll call you back."
EEEERRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!
Not to mention the BLOAT. Recycling? What about the meager concept
of efficiency?
EEEERRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!
And, No. I DON'T need the sophisticated machines. Each of the ~50
computers I own is less than 200MHz. I don't do complex rendering or
weather modeling, and I don't use the latest M$ products.
I'll be the first to rally the revolt.
> >they'll be used. Recently, a nearby thrift store was forced to throw away
> >many good computers, and not just PC's. There were Mac's in that
> >dumpster; IIfx's, a Classic, and a Quadra. I could only salvage a lone
> >Mac monitor, for in their haste to rid themselves of this "junk", they
> >simply tossed (tossed!) these computers one on top of the other, pretty
> >much smashing the Classic's CRT and every other Mac case. The only other
> >computer that was salvageable was a lone IBM PS/2 Model 55 SX. Why
> >couldn't they be sold, even though they were marked all the way down to
> >$1 a piece? Because, according to the store manager, they were just
> >obsolete. I asked her why, and she proceeded to tell me that the fella
> >who comes in to repair the machines told her that the older PC's (486 and
> >slower) and the Macs weren't Y2K compliant. And this is what he was
> >telling all of the customers...
EEEERRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! I just received some of Jag's
30-pin ram to run Linux boxes. Otherwise tossed boxes.
EEEERRRRRRRRRAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!
> This is terrible!
> Especially since macs have always been y2k compliant. A system 6 mac counts
> to 2040 (the year I must die:-). And about the older pc's... Microsoft
My Commodore-64 is Y2K compliant. This reminds me of another great
technology story about the race for space. Remember the 'Space Pen'
that NASA developed. Well, normal pens could not write in space so
they spent millions of dollars developing this pen. It works, and
still sells as a novelty (it will write upside-down). The Russians,
when faced with the same problem, used a pencil.
I recently brought out an old Apple IIgs after ~10 years of storage.
It booted, then showed the correct time - accurate within seconds.
Viva la Revolution!
A. Daniel King,
Revolutionary Agitator,
Vintage PC Aficionado
PS: I do feel better now. Thank you for your time. -d
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