[arachne] Re: handheld printer

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Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote:

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If only we expected them to be usable for the whole of their lives...we expect 
FREE support for life, for any add-ons, for new peripherals that were not 
designed to work on old gear, etc., and again, for FREE.  An example...USB 
peripherals such as pointing devices, printers, scanners...very few will work 
in plain DOS, heck few work properly in older than Windows 98 SE...which is now 
11 years old, and has been supplanted by WinXP, in 3 service packs, Vista, in 1 
SP and soon Win7...why would a company attempting to make a profit go to the 
added expense to create drivers compatible with DOS 5 just because a very small 
group of hobbyists just happen to have an ancient 386 or 486 still operating?
Like I said, I don't know, but sometimes it seems we expect too much.
As for "life" of a PC, nobody has defined that.  I would put it at no more than 
3 yrs, because in 3 yrs the capabilities have more than doubled twice.
Wiz
Am I living in the twilight zone? Don't we just expect them to publish the specs when they obsolete something so we can figure out how to support it ourselves? The issue as I see it isn't they won't support it. Rather, after they quit supporting it they won't even throw us a bone.
Computer companies are getting old enough now, a tactic I use before I decide to buy new is call up about an old product and see what kind of support I get. Don't know if it helps and it's probably not very accurate but I feel better knowing I'm working with a company who'll provide some level of support for old products. HP didn't support me when I called about an old calc but they did point me to someplace that would. That's not too bad. Arachne at FreeLists -- Arachne, The Premier GPL Web Browser/Suite for DOS --

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