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Old 08-12-2008, 11:43 AM
Barrykgerdes
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I have an old PC in the ceiling still connected to power and fully operational. I test it every two or three weeks.

It has DOS 6.2, Multimate, Wordstar, Symphony and Dataflex plus a lot of other generally useless junk and 1 MB of memory. However it has enough capacity to do all the essentials of a computer still. It has the princely capacity of a 20MB MFM hard drive with 15 MB unused.

It has a 2MHz processor and it can start up from cold. I can enter my accounts on the spread sheet or look up an address in the DB in less than a minute and shut down. Slightly less than the time it takes Windows XP to load on a 3.3 Ghz machine!

What the hell do we need TB's for except to collect more data than you can ever use

Barry
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