[CAUT] Pitch References

[Greg Newell]

  ..... nothing productive to add but, ... YAY!! 
Susan's back!! nice to hear from you again!

best,
Greg


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
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