Old PCs in Bristol, England need good home

From: Master of all that Sucks <vance_at_ikickass.org>
Date: Thu Jul 12 16:47:54 2001

Yes, but if one learns how to use computers without being exposed to GUIs,
as I believe many of us have, one becomes very proficient.

Peace... Sridhar

On Thu, 12 Jul 2001, Tony Duell wrote:

> IMHO, more clueful/knowledgeable people can do useful work on less
> powerful computers.
>
> For example, if I _had_ to, I could get useful work done using only a Z80
> box running CP/M. I'd not want that as my only computer, but I'd find a
> way to configure some kind of word processor to drive a printer and
> produce reasonable documents. Sure it wouldn't be as nice as LaTeX, but
> it would get the job done.
>
> And I could certainly write useful programs on it to support my hardware
> hacking type projects.
>
> And I could certainly do useful work on just about any unix box, however
> old. That includes all 386+ PCs that can run linux.
>
> But most people can't. They can't write special software (which generally
> _is_ requeired to use older machines -- there just aren't ready-written
> applications for a lot of uses). They can't wire up special cables or
> make interfaces to hook them up to other devices (like printers). Heck,
> they'd even be lost if faced with a command line....
>
> -tony
>
Received on Thu Jul 12 2001 - 16:47:54 BST