On Wed, 5 Aug 2009 10:06:10 -0700, RayBay wrote: >Someday, you guys in Thailand will have to face the future. Windows 2000 was >great, but it has been gone for nine years awreddy.
Ray we're all fine out here in Thailand but thanks for your concern. The fact is I'd buy a brand new machine in a heartbeat if I could find one with a decent keyboard. I am a touch typist and can go like a flash on my 600 machines. Nothing since is worth owning. Last month I bought a T43 whose keyboard is marginally acceptable. I will set this up with an external LCD and an old IBM clickety-clack keyboard. The T43 has XP and OS/2 on it. I'll run OS/2 for all my production work but will need XP for some things like (I think) my D-Link webcam (watching over my aged parents) since it seems to work only with IE. (Firefox won't show the image.) (I can run XP in a virtual machine.) The T43 will stay home and I'll take one of my 600s when I go offsite, synchronizing the files on return. For the 600 I have to stick to W2K, which is why I still use it. I have nothing against modernity in principle. (Well, a little bit; it has been all downhill since the Enlightenment.) Cheers to you all for this excellent group and its spirit of mutual helpfulness. Jeffrey Race PS The economy and the banks are just fine here. The Thai currency is strengthening against the dollar. We didn't wreck our economy by adopting a policy of lending to anyone who asked whether he had income or not. And the banking regulators were not purchased by the bankers as happened in the USA. So there! _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
