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to: Brenton Vettoretti
from: Keith Richardson
date: 1995-03-20 19:57:56
subject: WARNING - Definitely off!

On (18 Mar 95) Brenton Vettoretti wrote to Keith Richardson...



 KR> i've been freezing my arse off in a little place about 30 miles out of

 KR> boston mass (and i do mean litteraly freezing, the temp went positive

 KR> 4 times in 28 days!).

 BV> Geezzz, it's a rough life but sombody's gotta do it, right :)

 KR> yearh well.... it was my first time in the states, and frankly, i can

 KR> take it or leave it, it know that i only saw one small part, and not at

 KR> it's best then,



 BV> ROFL...The East Coast is much better than the West Coast.

 BV> You DID see the best of it.



so the rest really is just disneyland? i would really like to see

yosemite, the grand canyon, the rockies, and san fancisco though.



 BV> That's the important part. I just bought BC++ 4.5 with Database

 BV> Tools and the Visual Solutions Pack. At $359 it was a _steal_.

 KR> i think that i got ripped, i paid i think $280 for v4.5 with docs and

 KR> an extra copy of 4.0 thrown in. all i need is someone who wants an

 BV> unused

 KR> copy of 4.0.



 BV> Wasn't there someone in Aust_Trading who was after a BC++ ?



unfortunately he popped up just as i was rushing around to get ready to

go away at a weeks notice (a pommy passport is really useful if you need

to go to the states at short notice)



 KR> at the moment sadly i have not the time, the money, or the disk

 KR> space (100 megs left out of 920) what i desperately need is more ram,

 KR> photoshop uses it like a drunken sailor - 32megs would be ok but

 KR> 48megs would be about optimum



 BV> It's a worry ain't it. Still it could be worse. You might be trying

 BV> to setup WinWord 6 :)



i did that and was apalled at it's performance on a 16 meg dx2-66. it

doesn't seem so bad now but i dont know if that is due to an improvement

in it's performance, or a lowering of my expectations (:



                        Keith



... Dont Drink Drive - detergent is bad for you.



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