24 Jan
2012
24 Jan
'12
9:47 a.m.
TeoZ wrote:
The problem you tend to have is the people who are
ditching these old
machines are not the original owners (grandpa died and we are cleaning
out the attic type of thing) or just some reseller who got some old crap
dumped on him he wants gone with no fuss. So people have no clue how to
turn the machine on or what OS if any is loaded into it.
Right... but it seems that to most people, there's no difference between
the beige box of an x86 PC and a Commodore 64, say; to them, they're both
just "old computers". There probably is no sensible way of explaining it in
terms that non-tech-savvy people can understand, but I thought it wouldn't
hurt to ask the list in case someone's somehow managed to crack the problem :-)
cheers
Jules