[arachne] Re: handheld printer

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On Mon, May 25, 2009 9:51 pm, Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote:

> 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

Some things last and some things don't. Hardware is mostly
ephemeral. The engineering school my son attended bought a
thousand new laptop computers every year--yes, they were
Windows equipped, whatever was about a year behind the latest
release. The senior students got the new computers and last years
computers were given to the juniors and so on down the line.
Incoming freshmen got a four year old computer. I think they
donated the "end of cycle" computers to a high school mentoring
program. The freshman paid a five hundred dollar deposit, which was
returned when they left school. The cost of the computers was built
into the tuition for attending school.

The school had a wi-fi network, of course, so the laptops could be used
anywhere on campus--from the dorms to the parking lots to the
classrooms.

My son is now graduated and working at Hewlett Packard on a team
developing firmware for new network servers. Most of the engineers
prefer Macs for their own use at home. Interestingly enough, they
are writing the firmware in C, which, as we all know is ancient by
computer standards. Some things last and some things don't.

Sam Ewalt



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