At 01:08 PM 07/05/2006 -0400, you wrote: > ..... nothing productive to add but, ... YAY!! Susan's back!! nice to > hear from you again! > >best, >Greg Why, thanks. Busy, busy. Computer glitches. (What else is new?) I've dropped by now and then. Pianotech just had too much volume for me. ssssnn >At 10:17 AM 7/5/2006, you wrote: >>At 09:50 AM 07/05/2006 -0400, Bill wrote: >>>but the ole mac PB2400 >>>still boots right up and RCT functions jes' like back in the day. >> >>I think that if one uses software which was current at the time >>the computer was made, and especially if one doesn't use the computer >>on the Internet, and if one (therefore) doesn't "upgrade" the software, >>or allow the computer to "phone home" in that sneaky way so many >>programs indulge in, the old box just boots up happy as anything, for a long, >>long time. >> >>I'm in the process of setting up a newly brainwashed (hard drive >>reformatted after a meltdown) medium-old HP Pavilion as my business >>computer, which shall never get set up with internet access at all. >>Its days of playing around on the telephone line are over. The new computer, >>with fancy anti-virus and a new DSL connection will go out into the >>great and dangerous world. Backups will go FROM the cloistered old >>computer TO the fancy fast stranger, but never vice verse. >> >>I suppose eventually the hard drive gets mechanically tired ... like >>we do. But aside from that, an old computer should just go on and on, >>with any luck and a good anti-surge device. >> >>sssnnn > >Greg Newell >Greg's Piano Forté >mailto:gnewell at ameritech.net >www.gregspianoforte.com >
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