Path: csiph.com!fu-berlin.de!uni-berlin.de!individual.net!not-for-mail From: rbowman Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.setup,comp.os.linux.advocacy,sci.physics Subject: Re: Linux Crashing Date: Thu, 30 Sep 2021 07:48:28 -0600 Lines: 39 Message-ID: References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Trace: individual.net whgzhOfSW3TY7OAi0LvcWwQwdz3ar8euqBifUYb9bZwN2pSbfW Cancel-Lock: sha1:4RiAKuap3a572bBF7953hS/1iUI= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:45.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/45.6.0 In-Reply-To: Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.setup:4507 comp.os.linux.advocacy:594879 sci.physics:833322 On 09/29/2021 07:43 PM, Branimir Maksimovic wrote: > On 2021-09-30, rbowman wrote: >> On 09/29/2021 05:25 AM, chrisv wrote: >>> Clutterfreak wrote: >>> >>>> He'd left the max >>>> 24g RAM and the graphics card in it intact. His concern was that this >>>> jewel doesn't go to waste. With the new S-something he'd purchased this >>>> one would go to waste with him. >>> >>> Heh. One shouldn't get emotionally attacked to old, obsolete computer >>> hardware. But we do anyway... 8) >>> >>> I'm actually thinking about selling my Amiga. >>> >> >> I'm not attached but I still have my Compaq Concerto. >> >> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compaq_Concerto >> >> I paid $1500 for it when they came out in '93. It was a little chunky >> but when I see things like the Surface Pro 7 I think 'Haven't I been >> here before 28 years ago?' >> >> I don't think the Concerto lasted a year. I knew a woman who worked in a >> computer store and when I went in looking for a laptop she said 'Come >> into the back room and see the neat thing we just got in.' I told her to >> put it back in the box while I was writing the check. The computer has a >> lot of miles on it since it went trucking with me. > I am really fascinated with Apple tehcnollogy. Will never buy anything > else :P > First, a clarification: the Concerto as a Compaq device was discontinued quickly with little fanfare. afaik, mine would still work if I dug it out. The only Apple device I've ever owned is a iShuffle gifted to me by my boss one Christmas. As I've said before, nobody ever wanted to pay me to develop software for an Apple so I had no need for one.