17 Jun
2000
17 Jun
'00
12:36 a.m.
On Sat, 17 Jun 2000, Tony Duell wrote:
I have several too...
[...]
I'd like to get them to stop doing that with cars, except there wouldn't
be any good used ones for me to buy...
If it does what you want it to do, keep it. An
original PC/XT wouldn't
Yep, that seems to be a standard viewpoint on this list. It certainly
isn't the view of the j-random-public who insist on replacing computers
just because there's a new model out, even though they still work fine,
they still do the jobs they are needed for. meet many of my needs right now, so I
wouldn't use one except in an
emergency.
It doesn't do that many of the jobs I need either. Which is why I have
more than one computer. I'd rather have many machines, each one reliably
doing a particular job, than a modern PC that does nothing that I want
particularly well...
[...]
As I've said many times before (and will say many times again), I regard
the content of a document as being much more important than the
formatting, the printing method, etc. I've got books/manuals that appear
to have been written on a manual typewriter that contain useful
information. I've got plenty of documents created on DTP, etc, systems
that are not worth the paper they are printed on. Guess which I consider
to be more valuable...
I strive to create documents that both look nice and have useful
info, but that's just me.
I see
nothing wrong with printing newsletters on a dot matrix printer.
I don't either, really, except the people have come to expect laser
formatting, photographs, etc. I guess you *could* do it with an Apple II,
Of course J-random-public these days would rather look at the pretty
pictures than read pages of text
Assuming they can read at all. We have signs in our library , for example,
telling them how to use various databases, buy a copy card for the
printer, etc. I still end up walking people through the process
every day. And I'm talking about Doctors, M.D's!
, but fortunately, I'm not
J-random-public ;-)
None of us on this list are, that's what's so nice about it. :-)