11 Jan
2012
11 Jan
'12
6:35 a.m.
On 11 January 2012 12:58, Alexandre Souza - Listas
<pu1bzz.listas at gmail.com> wrote:
I have to agree!
Life moves on. I have no beef with vintage computers, or I wouldn't be here.
I have a number of Sinclair Spectrum machines. I do not use them for
my email, though. I have several Acorn RISC OS boxes. I don't surf the
web on them. They are not good tools for that job.
I am also interested in vintage science fiction and have an extensive
collection of it, but if I am trying to introduce someone to SF, I do
not start them on 50Y old books.
Use an appropriate tool. If you liked PINE, then Mutt is a decent
relatively modern text-mode keyboard-driven Curses email client. If
you like a GUI program, then use the latest version of it; if there
isn't one, then either find something similar, or if you really must,
use the last available version on the most modern machine that will
run it.
I write for a living. I actually like MS Word. I know many dozens of
other WPs but for 20y or more now I have actually liked Word.
Word 95 did everything I need and more, and it supports long filenames
and so on. But its file format is now obsolete and it can't access
documents from Word 97 or newer.
So, I run Word 97. It's tiny by modern standards and runs
*blisteringly* quickly on even a 6-7YO PC. It runs acceptable on
Windows 7/64-bit and under WINE on 64-bit Linux, so that is all I
need.
I am using a 15Y old bit of code on OSs that did not exist when it was
written, using CPUs whose architecture didn't exist when it was
written.
I am most definitively *NOT* arguing that everyone should be using the
very latest code, clients or hardware - but /using/ 20y old S/W on
20yo H/W for actual work in the modern world is an exercise in
masochism.
Use them for processes which have not changed. The Internet has
changed. 20Y ago the public Web did not exist. Trying to limp onto it
with kit that predates it is not impressive or laudable; it's an
exercise in bloody-minded pointlessness. Futility and self-defeat is
not something to applaud.
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I spent about
an hour earlier today bugfixing a friend's Yahoo email
account, about 50 minutes of which was spent getting past all the
fluff, pictures and videos that are fetched on every page of the
Yahoo webmail client. Grrr.
? I'd like to understand what you, old buffs, has with newer technology. I
have gmail and (personal servers) accounts, use web, windows XP and have NO
problems with all of that.
? Someone here is clearly wrong.