[Coco] Another OT post...

[Mark Marlette]

Roger,

I looked at the last two linked sites and didn't see any DSDD floppy
drives. ????

If you found them can you send me the link to the page(s).

Thanks,

Mark


>Rumor has it that KnudsenMJ at aol.com may have mentioned these words:
>>
>>In a message dated 4/1/05 8:04:20 PM Eastern Standard Time,
farna at att.net
>>writes:
>
>Hey Frank! Long time, no see... ;-)
>
>>>In fact,  I'm looking for something a bit better. Found an off-lease
company
>>>with some  PII 300 laptops in good working condition with 128MB RAM
or more
>>>for under  $150 (no operating system or software).
>
>For used laptops, I've had good luck with:
>
>http://www.maxxuminc.com (altho it's best to call 'em, they don't
usually
>keep a good inventory on their website)
>
>http://www.tcresale.com
>
>and to a lesser extent (but great for a lot of other stuff):
>
>http://www.isellsurplus.com
>
>In a lame attempt to bring this ontopic, the last two sites carry quite
a
>bit of "outdated" hardware (DSDD floppy drives, fer instance) that
might
>be useful to a CoCoNut...
>
>>The other good use of old PCs is to fit them with Linux, but you don't
want
>>to try explaining that OS to any other human who hasn't been thru a
few years
>>of  UNIX at work or OS9 at home.
>
>After my wife would call me at work twice daily with questions like
"Why
>won't my computer work right" and "There's this weird blue screen with
>white lettering" I invested in a DEC 3000 Model 300 (Alpha 150Mhz,
64Meg
>RAM, 2 each 2Gig SCSI hard drives, etc...) for $225USD about 5 years
ago,
>running DEC Tru64 Unix 5.0 several years ago, and *never* looked back;
and
>my wife is a major technophobe. Admittedly, I set up the machines (she
>couldn't set up Win9x either, to be fair) and got everything working.
My
>tech-support calls from my wife went from 10 weekly to 1 in 2.5 years
(log
>files filled the root directory; I set up a cronjob after that... ;-).
>
>Saying "Double-click on Netscape" doesn't really matter much if it's in
>Unix, Linux, winders, etc...
>
>Last year, she calls me up, saying "I keep double-clicking on this
thingy
>that a friend sent me, but it won't open." I told her "It's just a
virus,
>just delete it and don't worry about it!" ;^>
>
>>Anyway, stick with Win98SE.  Works for me.  --Mike K.
>
>Yes, 95 doesn't support enough newer hardware out there, and WinME
sucks
>worse than 3.1. 98SE is about as stable as you're going to get; make
sure
>there's a good antivirus package on there, tho. (Norton: Bad. McAfee:
Very
>Bad. I've had really good luck with Computer Associates e-Trust; go for
>the Workstation version instead of the Home version, tho. More robust,
>more blocking options (you can block by extension, like .pif and .hta)
and
>you can disable it by application (disabling nero.exe and peachw.exe in
my
>case really helped at work) - a very effective solution.
>
>HTH,
>Roger "Merch" Merchberger
>
>--
>Roger "Merch" Merchberger   | "Bugs of a feather flock together."
>sysadmin, Iceberg Computers |           Russell Nelson
>zmerch at 30below.com          |
>
>
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