Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 14:23:15 -0600
Reply-To: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
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From: John Rodgers <inua@CHARTER.NET>
Subject: Re: NVC - MS vs Mac
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Larry,
On a construction job back in '83 on the :Island Terrific in the North
Pacific" - Kodiak Island - I sat and had coffee with a fellow worker -
engineer on a survey project. He told me tales of working with Texas
Instruments on ship, where he was the programmer and spent his days in a
room on the ship with panels of toggle switches mounted in rows, and
using data cards, he would go panel after panel, switch row after switch
row, setting toggle switches down or up, minus and plus, negative and
positive., zero and one. He would power the panels, generate the data,
and start all over again. spent days and days at it.
I began my computer career back in the days of the 8 bit processor and
CPM operating systems. Program on a disk in drive "A", Data disk in
drive "B" Internal memory was nil. First computer was an Osborne
Portable about the size of a Singer sewing machine. It worked, and was a
beginning. Then IBM decided to tell the US Government to "Kiss Off" and
dumped the architecture for DOS onto the market, and the rest is history.
I skipped the MS Dos period, and started my Microsoft days with Window's
3.5 way way back. Went through a lot of changes with Microsoft and
computer hardware until today. Spent a good bit of time growling and
pounding my fists, in dealing with both the Systems and the hardware.
Now I have been using Windows XP for a good while. For me it has been
very stable. Most problems I have had have been hardware problems
induced by crappy line power supplied by the power company. I'm pretty
happy with it all now. Don't think I would change. Might, but 'prol'ly not.
Regards,
John Rodgers
88 GL Driver
Larry Chase wrote:
> Volks,
>
> Friday NVC - Windows vs Mac inquiry
>
> I think I have finally had it with Windows based computers.
>
> No matter what I do .. Over time they seem to clog, slow down, crash more
> frequently, are a
> pain in the B*tt and tech support really, really S*CKS!
>
> So I'm thinking of going over to the "light side" MAC.
>
> Although it may take several months to complete the conversion and I may
> still need to hold onto 1 MS system to
> run ETKA and such.
>
> Got my eye on a 42" HD TV first :)
>
> Thoughts, encouragement, discouragement, opinions ... All would be very
> welcome.
>
> I wonder if this topic will be as spirited as tire and engine conversion
> discussions.
>
> One can only hope.
>
>
> good road,
> good adventure,
> good life,
>
> larry chase
> www.roadhaus.com
> www.roadhaus.com/recipes.html
> www.roadhaus.com/camp.php
> www.roadhaus.com/shops.php
> www.roadhaus.com/tires.html
> www.roadhaus.com/face_book.html
>
>
>
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