Zeus334_at_aol.com wrote:
>
> A 68040 -based machine is not that old, maybe a bit under 10 years. What I
> was wondering is whether or not there is any objective advantage of old
> machines to new ones. F.E. one could get an old IBM mini (System/3X) for
> little or no money, but is there anything doable on it that is impossible to
> do on a W****** 95 machine?
Sure. On a TRS-80 Model 16 I can word process with Scripsit-16, which
isn't as loaded with useless features as _every_ current Windoze package
and use filePro-16 which is IMAO superior to any SuQaL (pronounce it
phonetically) database system around. Of course, I don't presently OWN a
Model 16, as back in 1989 I wound up scrapping the two the power company
had murdered (I was moving), but I _do_ have a Tandy 6000 which happens
to run those just fine. If anybody on this list has copies of the
original installation media and/or manuals, I'd love to get them -- I'm
dependent on backups of a senile hard disk and self-created install
media that I _think_ will work. (It helps that I started my education of
the Unix (Xenix) shell language by studying the original installation
scripts as a Radio Shack tech support rep.) But I'm not sure.
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]
Received on Mon Dec 01 1997 - 21:22:37 GMT