11 Nov
1998
11 Nov
'98
10:46 p.m.
Sam Ismail wrote:
On Wed, 11 Nov 1998, Russ Blakeman wrote:
I do in a way, it's called selling them rigged in various ways to locals that are
still happily using them, at a fraction of the cost of even a used Pentium system.
Just like in the car market, some people gotta have a new one every year, others
are happy with one that gets them where they are going. I'm happy with my 74 Chevy
crew cab pickup.
Recyclers are in this for the wrong reasons many times, such as the gold extractor
that was brought up last year.
Unless you're talking about Win98, 95 or
Workgroups, a 286 with 1 mb of
ram can and does run Windows 3.11 very well. I have 2 machines here in
the 286 class that run Netscape (older version) under Windows 3.11 and
have 4 mb of ram on a fair sized hard disk (120mb). They're also PS/2's
to boot.
Hey, you're right. Maybe you ought to hold a seminar on how to make 286's
useful so these centers can get some use out of it.
That's the story I got from one recycler. And it seems to be the rule
with all the recyclers I know of.