A Great Find & A Defense of E-Bay

From: Charles P. Hobbs <transit_at_lerctr.org>
Date: Fri Jun 16 19:02:52 2000

On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Dave McGuire wrote:

> On June 16, Charles P. Hobbs (SoCalTip) wrote:
> > I *do* know there is a big difference between my Apple II (which still
> > does yeoman service running my Syntauri synthesizer) and the
> > PowerComputing PowerCenter 240 that I do most of my "real work" on. And,
> > no, I'm not going back to the Apple II and a dot-matrix printer to do my
> > newsletters on, or surf the Net.
>
> I think you're taking it to an extreme here, though, given the
> context. I'm talking about the Pentium-II/233 that was "wow fabulous
> wonderful my god check out my new machine!!" three years ago that are
> heading to trash bins today.

A 233 I'd probably still keep, personally. (I run a library computer lab
and we replaced some Pentium 120's with new Pentium III 600's, via a
grant. The 120's went to another campus lab, where they are going to
replace some 486's) The P120's (and the 486's) still *work*, they're just
slow in dealing with some of the fancy web pages that people want to look
at.
Received on Fri Jun 16 2000 - 19:02:52 BST