On Thu, 11 Feb 1999, Dan Olson wrote:
> > Huh? Not to open up a large can of worms here, but in my opinion the ONLY
> > reason for ELKS is for something fun for its participants to do. The
> > relative utility of 8086-class computers goes down every day.
If you don't like it, then get off the list.
> > Consider that you can buy a used computer with a Pentium 60 with
> > onboard video, IDE, serial, and parallel, 16 Mbyte of RAM and a 270
> > Mbyte hard disk for around $75, and run REAL Linux on it (check it out
> > for yourself on any of the on-line auction web pages).
Say if you wanted to buy 100 of these machines. Or 1000 of these
machines. You couldn't really do it as easily. Besides, why spend $75
for a machine for students in a school for example, when an old XT (which
is being discarded) can be used instead.
Also, if you've got say a dozen old XTs, you'll wanna get them to work.
If you don't want to get them to work, there's lots of people who will
quite gladly take it off your hands and get it to work.
Davey
