[GTALUG] Voting with our Dollars on Computing Future that Respects our Freedom.

[Alvin Starr]

On 08/27/2016 02:36 PM, James Knott via talk wrote:
> On 08/27/2016 11:34 AM, Anthony de Boer via talk wrote:
>> Alvin Starr via talk wrote:
>>> The reason for laptop upgrades is often needing more memory or disk 
>>> space but by the time you get there 2-3 years down the road the keyboard 
>>> has food bits under it and the touch pad is wearing out so getting a new 
>>> laptop is the way to go.
>> I had a Thinkpad from around 2000 that lasted more than a decade; it
>> was solid hardware and I didn't abuse it.  And ultimately Moore's Law
>> caught up with it, even though I'd maxed out RAM once that got cheap
>> and upgraded the hard drive.
>>
>> I could probably haul it out today and get it booted, but why bother?
>>
>> Lesson from that is buy it to use it not coddle it, and plan to upgrade
>> in not more than five years.  Though maybe Moore's Law is levelling out?
>>
> I also had a ThinkPad from that vintage, an R31, IIRC.  It worked well,
> but I eventually bought a new E520, as the R31, while still usable
> wasn't keeping up with the software.
>
If we are into playing mine is bigger ^h^h^h^h^h older then yours...
I have a multibus NS16032 in my basement with an ST-506 multibus interface.

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