28 Jan
2005
28 Jan
'05
11:09 a.m.
Define "non-Classic", after all by this
lists definition of "Classic" you'll
be able to run Windows 95 in a year. If you're limiting yourself to your
VAXen and the like, the time is going to come when you won't be able to get
Hard Drives to replace dead ones.
Should it ever come to that -- that is that I can't get the parts to
_repair_ the hard drives (note : I would certainly consider making a
'clean box' to work on the inside of the HDA if necessary), then I would
grab the soldering iron, raid the junk box, and design an interface to a
more modern storage device. Heck, I've seen flash memory cards with more
storage than the hard drives in most of my machines....
Or perhaps it shows how you are limiting yourself.
Many of the things that
I use a computer for are either not practical, or just plain impossible on
It depends on what you want to do, I guess. I have no interest -- at all
-- in digital audio or video processing. I will only _consider_ buying a
digital camera when the results available are better than those from my
currnet film-based cameras (which, considering I have a number of
large-format sheet film cameras, won't be for some time!). For the
applications I use a computer for (text processing, programming,
supporting my classics by doing automatic testing, EPROM dumping,
assembling/disassembly binary programs, etc) a classic computer does all
I need!
-tony