-=> Quoting Ross Cassell to Dan Ceppa <=-

 RC> Long gone are the days of the computer geek whom fondly remembers DOS,
 RC> the  xt/at class machines, the Commodore Vic20/64/128, much less the
 RC> Altair or early  Macs. I see people, even in the middle age to retiree
 RC> age groups just now  buying their very first computer(s). I see
 RC> retiree's coming in whereas one  spouse wont touch one, but the other
 RC> will.
     Sadly, a friend's wife told my friend when they bought his computer
     that it had to "Look Good" in the living room before she'd allow him
     to buy it.... I think I'd have to let her know if that's the case,
     you might want to start wearing some looser clothes that feels
     more comfortable in the back yard, because I'm beginning to think
     you'd look better out there....  ;-)

 RC> I have had many come in having a working machine of that era, but
 RC> needing to  add a printer or replace one and not being able to find
 RC> printers that work with  no longer supported OSes and hardware...  (Yes
 RC> the Parallel Port is deprecated)
     If that's the only reason they need to buy a new system, why not sell
     them a router that has a USB printer port or one of those netowkr
     USB Hub devices? Kinda goes back to the profiet margine....
     Sales look better for a new system and printer than at most
     a printer, router and network card....

 RC> People shouldnt be using Win95-ME on the Internet anyway unless they
 RC> are  running said OS in a Virtual Machine.
     Why's that?  Has telnet.exe and ftp.exe changed that much since then?
     Has far.exe released a new version that doesn't work on Windows'95?
     Last I checked, Lynx and Sea Monkey ran on Windows'95.....
     Oh yeah that's right, because if your on the internet the only thing
     you do is download pictures, videos, and music and play games....
     That's right... You can't use ftp, nntp, telnet on the internet unless
     you are stuck in the 70's.... It bugs me to no end how people think
     the web is the only part of "The internet"


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