[CAUT] Pitch References

[Susan Kline]

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