Re: Major interview

["PP Jose C. Lacal" <jlacal@yahoo.com>]

Ray:

You might be right on the dating issue. I knew it was
old, and it looked to me like it was older than a 486
Packard Bell laptop I had around 1991/1992.

The _date_ of the laptop is not the point I want to
make in the interview, and it is not the point I was
making to your earlier comment. My point is that
pre-Pentium PCs (486s and even 386s), with the proper
(available) DOS- or Linux-based software, are quite
usable still.

[Aside: Anybody out there want to sell a usable
Toshiba T3200SX 386 laptop with 02 ISA slots in the
back? That is what I was using as a demo client before
the P/S died on me. That is why I bought the Compaq
486.]

Or are you saying that such "old" PCs are only good
for the dumpster, and that everybody must go out and
buy a new eMachine, for example? Please help me
understand your point.

Regards.

--- Ray Olszewski <ray@comarre.com> wrote:
> At 09:43 AM 9/8/99 +0200, Jose C. Lacal wrote [in
> part]:
> 
> >02 weeks ago in California I bought a (13 years
> old) Compaq 486 color
> >luggable computer. It has 32 Mb RAM and a 500 Mb
> HD. It came with
> >Windows NT 4.0 workstation. I sliced the disk and I
> now also run DR-DOS
> >and WfW 3.11 on a 100 MB partition. With all of the
> software I mention
> >above.
> 
> Are you sure about that? My reference
> (http://telecom.tbi.net/comphis.html)
> says that Intel only released the 80486 in 1990, so
> a 13-year-old Compaq
> (from 1986) would be a real collectors' item. If you
> plan to use this
> illustration in the interview, you might want to
> check your dating.
> 
> 
> 
> ------------------------------------"Never tell me
> the odds!"---
> Ray Olszewski                                       
> -- Han Solo
> Palo Alto, CA           	 	         ray@comarre.com 
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