19 Jan
2010
19 Jan
'10
4:02 p.m.
At 02:38 AM 1/19/2010, David Griffith wrote:
People who think the easiest route to a new OS and 2 or 4 gigs of RAM is
a new computer, as opposed to paying premium prices for big sizes of
last-gen and last-last-gen RAM.
When the cost of upgrading and/or a repair is half the cost of a new
computer, many choose the new computer. The old one heads for the dust bin.
- John
I am regularly
offered 2+GHz Pentium-4 machines because it has gotten around that I'm into
"vintage computing". Scary.
What kind of people offer such machines?