16 Jun
2000
16 Jun
'00
7:34 p.m.
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.
There is *NO* reason for this. Those machines are just as
functional today as they were three years ago...but people are
treating them like trash simply because something faster has been
introduced by the vendor!
-Dave McGuire