[TenTec] Basic question - Long

[Dave Edwards]

Steve...
I see it as the distinction between shopping for months for about 15 boxes
of pieces and parts, and then spending another month on the phone with help
desks (that for all practical purposes, don't speak english) to get them to
work with each other...and there is a good chance they won't!!...  Then
searching the web for updated drivers and patches to fix problems.
vs..
Going to CompUSA and plunking a grand on the table and bringing home a plug
'n play 'puter, ready to go.
Kinda like when you built your own in Heathkit days, you didn't blow your
own glass to fabricate tubes...but it was still called "building your rig"
(yes, from a kit)
....Dave
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Steve Weber" <kd9bo at mac.com>
To: <tentec at contesting.com>
Sent: Sunday, August 01, 2004 10:01 PM
Subject: Re: [TenTec] Basic question - Long


> Golly Gee!
>
> You built your own computer???  Really???  You went to the beach,
> brought home a bucket of sand and made your own chips?  Mined and
> smelted your own copper?  Designed and built your own microprocessor?
> Mined your own iron ore, made steel, rolled it into sheets to make
> the chassis?
>
> Or did you plug a bunch of prefabricated subassemblies into a
> prefabricated motherboard, mount them into a prefabricated case with
> a prefabricated power supply.
>
> Lighten up already.  None of us build our own computers.
>
> Sheesh!
>
>
> >  > Don't stop...since we can't talk about the Orion firmware
> >>  on the Ten Tec
> >>  reflector...we can bash computers!
> >
> >ok.
> >
> >>  Yep, it was Gates who once said that...I think that was >
> >>  way before  there
> >>  was an orange..er..an apple...
> >
> >Apple existed way before gates.
> >
> >
> >
> >>  Hmmmm...where can I get some Apple software that will run
> >>  385 servers
> >>  spread
> >>  across the country...that will NOT fail?
> >
> >Try BEA.
> >
> >
> >And, oh yes, don't try to have those windows
> >servers actually try to do something other than
> >the occasional file sharing. They will crash.
> >I have seen systems that repeatedly crashed
> >windows (NT) because they could not service
> >requests fast enough, then recompile those
> >systems for unix without one line change
> >and have the unix boxes run at 35% cpu
> >utilization. Windows is ok if you don't
> >actually use it, or need to make changes.
> >maybe.
> >
> >
> >
> >>What COM ports? Only reason we
> >>  need
> >>  COM ports now is to run ham software.
> >
> >So, how is the support guy gonna connect?
> >Most sites still need to have the warm
> >fuzzy feeling that they can hang up the
> >telephone rather then opening their network
> >up for remote connects.
> >
> >
> >>  OH yea, I've been running WinXPpro
> >>  on
> >>  my three home made PC's also for three years with NO
> >crashes.
> >
> >I refer you to my earlier comment about actually using it.
> >
> >>  By the
> >>  way,
> >>  did you build your MAC?
> >
> >No, I didn't have to.
> >What exactly did you actually build?
> >
> >this is fun..
> >
> >73,
> >bill w6eet
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>
> -- 
> Steve Weber
>
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