This is a ThinkPad list, not a political list, so let's leave the country bashing for other venues.
To keep this post more TP-related, if you ever need another 600 let me know... I have a perfect little 600E sitting on the shelf collecting dust. The only shortcoming is the dead battery. Rob On Thu, 06 Aug 2009 21:31 +0700, "Jeffrey Race" <[email protected]> wrote: > 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! -- http://www.fastmail.fm - mmm... Fastmail... _______________________________________________ Thinkpad mailing list [email protected] http://stderr.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/thinkpad
