1 Dec
1997
1 Dec
'97
4:26 p.m.
A 68040 -based machine is not that old, maybe a bit under 10 years. What I
was wondering is whether or not there is any objective advantage of old
machines to new ones. F.E. one could get an old IBM mini (System/3X) for
little or no money, but is there anything doable on it that is impossible to
do on a W****** 95 machine?
In a message dated 97-11-30 21:43:54 EST, you write:
<< FYI...
In ba.market.computers, George Akimov <iga(a)metabyte.com> wrote:
Our company has a computer which we would like to
donate to college or
school.
The name is "ARETE" Model 1224/160/16 OS -
ARIX, ARIXNET Ethernet
2 CPU boards, 68040 -25mhz
64 MB memory
4-800 MB Disks
16 serial ports
240 v.power
Expansion Cabinet 1200/exp
474 MB disk drive 1000/D474
9-track Tape Drive 1000/9T-HP
9-track Tape/Disk Controller 1000/DT2-9T
Software, incl INFORMIX.
>
1 Dec
1 Dec
9:22 p.m.
Zeus334(a)aol.com wrote:
A 68040 -based machine is not that old, maybe a bit under 10 years. What I
was wondering is whether or not there is any objective advantage of old
machines to new ones. F.E. one could get an old IBM mini (System/3X) for
little or no money, but is there anything doable on it that is impossible to
do on a W****** 95 machine?
Sure. On a TRS-80 Model 16 I can word process with Scripsit-16, which
isn't as loaded with useless features as _every_ current Windoze package
and use filePro-16 which is IMAO superior to any SuQaL (pronounce it
phonetically) database system around. Of course, I don't presently OWN a
Model 16, as back in 1989 I wound up scrapping the two the power company
had murdered (I was moving), but I _do_ have a Tandy 6000 which happens
to run those just fine. If anybody on this list has copies of the
original installation media and/or manuals, I'd love to get them -- I'm
dependent on backups of a senile hard disk and self-created install
media that I _think_ will work. (It helps that I started my education of
the Unix (Xenix) shell language by studying the original installation
scripts as a Radio Shack tech support rep.) But I'm not sure.
--
Ward Griffiths
"Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails
of the last priest." [Denis Diderot, "Dithyrambe sur la fete de rois"]
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