16 Jun
2000
16 Jun
'00
8:02 p.m.
On Fri, 16 Jun 2000, Dave McGuire wrote:
On June 16, Charles P. Hobbs (SoCalTip) wrote:
A 233 I'd probably still keep, personally. (I run a library computer lab
and we replaced some Pentium 120's with new Pentium III 600's, via a
grant. The 120's went to another campus lab, where they are going to
replace some 486's) The P120's (and the 486's) still *work*, they're just
slow in dealing with some of the fancy web pages that people want to look
at.
I *do* know there is a big difference between my
Apple II (which still
does yeoman service running my Syntauri synthesizer) and the
PowerComputing PowerCenter 240 that I do most of my "real work" on. And,
no, I'm not going back to the Apple II and a dot-matrix printer to do my
newsletters on, or surf the Net.
I think you're taking it to an extreme here, though, given the
context. I'm talking about the Pentium-II/233 that was "wow fabulous
wonderful my god check out my new machine!!" three years ago that are
heading to trash bins today.