24 Jul
1998
24 Jul
'98
4:08 p.m.
At 02:47 PM 7/24/98 GMT, you wrote:
>>From: Bill Kent <billakent(a)hotmail.com>
>>My name is Bill Kent and I am working on a
story for a major online
>>publication. The focus is on users who use what others might consider
>>"obsolete" technology. I would like to speak to a few users who use
>>oder PCs (386 and below) for productivity apps. I'm talking about in
>>business, education, or home. If you use them as servers or something
>>else, that's super, I'd like to hear about it. I'm not interested in
>>hobbyists who just enjoying hacking the machines. If it requires a
>>soldering iron, it's too complex for this article.
Well, let's see. I use a Radio Shack model 100 (like many people) for
taking notes/writing away from home. Once I get my Starlet fixed, I'll be
doing the same with that (CP/M laptop, with Wordstar in ROM). I also have
an Outbound notebook (mac clone laptop ca. 1990) that I and my girlfriend
use.
She (Rachel Grilley, <auntierae(a)california.com>) also uses older macs in
her classroom to teach her first graders reading, math, science, etc. They
range from plusses to IIci's.
My voicemail system is currently running on a 286/512K/40mb system, but is
about to be upgraded Real Soon Now to a shoebox-sized 386sx system I picked
up recently at a surplus place. (Same VM card/software, just different
computer -- actually can run on an 8088 even.)
I have an Atari Portfolio (8088, DOS, size of a video tape) that I carry
around for taking notes.
I also use my Atari ST's and Falcons for music sequencing/recording.
(Well, not as much as I like, but once I win the lottery...) I can also
put you in touch with a lot of people who are using their ST's a lot.
And lastly, my main machine is a 486 laptop, but I have written a DOS-based
application to manage the San Francisco Free List (see
<http://www.sinasohn.com/freelist/> for more info) including maintaining
the database of events, building daily and monthly web pages, and
generating weekly event listings. Eventually, I'll probably move that onto
a different DOS-based laptop so others can assist in maintaining the events
database.
Anyway, feel free to drop me a note about any of the above (or anyhthing
else, for that matter).
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