2000-11-05
I hate to sound mean, and I wouldn't be so strong about this if upgrades had
to be bought. But, with so much free stuff, even if it isn't perfect is
better than nothing. And, if your machine is too old, maybe it is time to
upgrade that too. It has to be frustrating using a 386 to access the
internet. Everything has to load very sloooooooooooooow.
One doesn't have to upgrade to the latest, but at least to a level that is
comfortable for the user and still work with the newest software. It is
still possible to buy mother boards (Socket 7 about 50 $), a processor (233
MHz Pentium about 40 $), 64 MB of PC100 ram for about 55 $, a 7.5 GB hard
drive for about 70 $, a 52X CD-ROM for 40 $ and fit it into an existing
case. This comes to under 300 $. These prices were from a quick scan of
the Tigerdirect catalog. If you already have an IDE compatible hard drive,
a CD-ROM, you can forget these. If you have Windows-9x from a previous
system, you can reuse it.
Eventually anyone with an old computer and/or software will have to upgrade.
Old software doesn't always work well on newer systems, or with newer
internet enhancements. I had a sister of a cousin (through marriage) who
was still running IE3.0 and couldn't understand why she kept getting script
errors. I told her IE3.0 couldn't understand a lot of the newer commands
designed for newer versions of Internet Explorer and upgraded her first to
5.01 then to 5.5. And lo-and-behold, no more script errors.
John
> -----Original Message-----
> From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On
> Behalf Of James R. Frysinger
> Sent: Sunday, 2000-11-05 21:31
> To: U.S. Metric Association
> Cc: U.S. Metric Association
> Subject: [USMA:9018] RE: HTML Email
>
>
> I'm running Netscape 4.75 on my linux system at home. Of course it
> handles HTML quite well. Also, StarOffice 5.2 (and 5.1 before it)
> handles HTML quite well on linux. Another mail reader, Kmail, reads most
> HTML messages but some fail to decode so I see all the tags. I have not
> been interested in what makes them fail. Opening a link on Kmail calls
> up kfm, which deals beautfully with HTML. All the programs I've
> mentioned here are free. Kmail and kfm are probably not very large so
> they would probably work even on a small memory, 386 machine. I don't
> know what the Macintosh linux packages come with.
>
> Jim
>
> Bill Potts wrote:
> ....
> > However, I'm not sure that everyone on this list is on a Windows or
> > Macintosh platform. I agree that there's no real reason they shouldn't
> > upgrade. Those on a UNIX platform may possibly have a problem doing so
> > (although I don't know that for sure).
>
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