15 Jun
2004
15 Jun
'04
2:43 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jay West" <jwest(a)classiccmp.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, June 15, 2004 9:19 PM
Subject: Re: WARNING: RANTING COMPUTER NUT...
I don't see a problem talking about 3rd party pre win95 hardware and
software that's 10 years old or older. Stock prebuilt systems and their
associated problems are boring to me also. To be honest editing a win 3.1
*.ini file, making DOS batch files do cool things, getting a 386 with
Desqview/X and a Mac running A/UX to run each others X windows programs, etc
will be long forgotten in another 10 years of point and click never touched
the hardware computing. How many people today know how to troubleshoot IRQ
problems or get 2 soundcards working fine in one DOS machine.
The point is not to turn the list into a Windows tech center for the top
1000 common and easy to google a fix for problems.
Just a thought.
TZ
I have PCs
running windows because I must, but I don't need the latest
and greatest Microsoft offering, I am running Windows NT4.0 with Office
95 (which btw will soon be covered by the 10 year boundary :-).
I expect the 10 year boundary for the list may be revised soon ;)