WARNING: RANTING COMPUTER NUT...

From: John Allain <allain_at_panix.com>
Date: Tue Jun 15 10:54:58 2004

> lets stop the bashing, and just LEARN TO DEAL WITH IT!

I think that the 10-year rule may have to be dropped when that sliding
window falls to the era of the PC monoculture. Sun hasn't died yet,
so there's a peephole to other architectures, but a small one.
Later we may have to rest on a fixed cut-off date.

Resurrecting PC's would be as much fun as other computers if it
weren't for the software.

BTW I like PC _hardware_. The seeming need that MS has for planned
obsolescence, a practice that looks like pure deception to me, has made
it first hard then later impossible to love.

> Standardization of both hardware and software HAD TO HAPPEN,

Sure glad there's Linux.

There's a secondary issue too, with the death of computers as education
tools, replaced by computers as entertainment. That seems like it could
even be a cultural dead-end. First Television went from Golden age to
cultural wasteland, now it's time for computers to do same.
</deep>


> If a member finds an item that is aimed at the scrapper, salvage it
> even if it is not part of their main focus [for later trade/sale/barter],
> or find someone who can.

BTW I have three Pentium 75 systems here for a good cause.
I sure seem to have made Chris happy with other off-focus items.

John A.
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Received on Tue Jun 15 2004 - 10:54:58 BST