Re: Netiquette 80

Brian D Williams (talon57@well.com)
Thu, 30 Sep 1999 07:04:44 -0700 (PDT)

From: "O'Regan, Emlyn" <Emlyn.ORegan@actew.com.au>

>>Brian wrote:
>> I use an ole 386/sx20 machine with DOS 5.00.409c beta and WIN
>>3.1 to do mail with. I telnet to the corporate firewall, then to
>>the WELL in Calif and then to the world. I read mail with the
>>shareware utility LIST, and edit with WordPerfect 5.1.

>This is not the first time that I've seen people admitting that
>the technology they are using to talk on the net is pretty aged.
>This seems to happen amongst technophiles of all stripes; someone
>mentions their new Pentium III with 5 billion meg of ram, etc
>and up jumps the response "What do you need all that for; I'm
>doing full realtime 3D texture mapped rendering on my old XT, I
>use a graphical HP calculator from the late 80s to connect to the
>'net.

No need to reinvent the wheel, I have better tech, I just don't need to use it for something as simple as E-mail. This particular machine has run all day for 10 years without ever a problem.

>Bonus marks for comments such as "and after I set it up PROPERLY
>it runs better than my friends' Pentium III which he just bought
>last week".

I get a point, this machine is ancient, but does what I need it to do.

>I'm really wondering if this is going to continue for us so-called
>"future-ophiles"; I can just imagine people trying to run their
>general nano-assembler from "the pentium I've had since the dark
>ages - yes, it is pre-millenium, and if you configure it right
>it's still up there with the slower quantum boxes people are
>running these days.

Why replace something that works with something new that is buggy? Why not save a few bucks and invest it?

>Talk about cracking a nut with a sledgehammer."

If thats all you have why not, It's like Gallagers crack about the sledge-o-matic " it makes mashed potato's and it makes french fries, but you have to hit that sucker just right......."

Brian

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