David wrote:
>It's interesting that people who presumably like computer are so negative
>about their use in automobiles.
(snip)
>Both Bernie and Pippi mentioned the relative costs
Hmm... I wrote (I sort of started this thread)
>A teacher told us about what the mechanics had said to a friend of his:
"No wonder your >car doesn't work as it should - it isn't patched", they
applied some patch for some >program in it and voila it worked again. I
guess things have changed since the "good >old days", right?
I haven't written anything after that (atleast not that I and Eudora can
recall <g>) on this subject.
And just for the record I am not against it and don't own a car (no need
for one yet and it's too expensive for me). I think that a new car could
save you alot of money on lower gas use to pay for part of the change, the
trouble is of course having that extra money for a change.
Now if we get back to computers I think that it's useless to put a cluster
of old machines together instead of buying a newer one since they'll use
way more electricity (not to mention space). Last time I checked setting up
a network did cost money (ca 20-30USD for one machine).
And add to that the problem of finding ISA cards since they are almost
(extremly close to) extinct now, but that's here and we seem to be a year
or so ahead of atleast the US with regards to hardware. It was even
impossible getting ahold of a PCI graphic cards almost a year ago, 3D cards
still exists but other than that there's nothing for the first "generation"
Pentiums.
So a SurvPC goes as high as one that has ISA cards and no AGP bus (Pentium,
Pentium Pro and Pentium MMX) here, and is slowly going up into K6-2 and
Pentium II (since they still support ISA cards and are relativly slow).
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