End users who pay insane amounts! Who wants to offer support for OLD systems on DOS?

From: sales at elecplus.com To: cctalk at classiccmp.org Subject: End users who pay insane amounts! Who wants to offer support for OLD systems on DOS? Date: Mon, 27 May 2013 12:05:08 -0500 I am working with a company in Canada that does manufacturing. Their software is old DOS, and the network is Novell. We have plenty of NIC cards that will work, but rather than pay $20 for mine with BNC, he is ordering his exact card from another company for $96 each! Their reasoning is that it takes more human hours to configure a different card than the price difference of the cards is worth. Also no support available any longer for these old systems and software, even though I sent him the exact drivers from the Novell page. Seems like some of you retired folks should offer your services to companies like these, get them up and going again. The kids they have in-house know NOTHING abt DOS or ISA! The purchasing agents can only go by exact PN that was in the old system, and they will pay through their teeth to keep them running. Cindy Croxton _____ No virus found in this message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 2013.0.3343 / Virus Database: 3184/6361 - Release Date: 05/27/13