[at-l] Sleeping Bag Drive and computer Trouble!!

[jbullar1 at twcny.rr.com (Jim Bullard)]

At 05:10 PM 12/27/2003 -0500, J Bryan Kramer wrote:
>Computers don't become obsolete after 6 years, barring hardware problems.
>They run just fine with the ORIGINAL software. You start having problems
>when you expect a 6 year old computer to run software written for current
>machines which are a hundred times faster(or more), with much bigger drives
>and memory.

LOL - I thought that was the definition of obsolete. :) If you are content 
not being able to do any of the things a newer machine will do then Bryan 
is correct, you can reformat, reinstall and be just as "fast" (by the 
standards of 6 years ago) as it ran new. I still have an IBM Thinkpad 33mhz 
laptop running Windows 3.1. It still *works* but I don't kid myself that it 
isn't obsolete. It has a grey scale screen and can't run any of the 
software I now find most useful, so it gathers dust. I'm thinking of 
turning it into a high class darkroom timer by hooking it up to a switch 
and getting my son to write a timing program for me. With a ruby stage 
light gel over the screen it could even double as a safelight.