[arachne] Re: handheld printer

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glennmcc,
         I doubt that few users expect commercial
companies to produce new software for "obsolete"
computers...but....many users would like better
design of programs instead of being forced
to buy new computers to run "bloatware."

And a webpage doesn't need to provide the same
functions to a TRS-80 that it does to the latest & greatest
new computers.....but the webpage could at least
be designed to load and provide some info to all
browsers.

Eric

On Tue, 26 May 2009 16:54:36 -0500 "Glenn McCorkle"
<glennmcc@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
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> On Tue, 26 May 2009 08:31:22 -0400, Samuel W. Heywood wrote:
> 
> > On Tue, 2009-05-26 at 06:04 -0400, Sam Ewalt wrote:
> >> Arachne at FreeLists---The Arachne Fan Club!
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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.
> 
> > I have several computers made during the 1980's that still work
> > just fine, even for surfing the internet, but only on web pages
> > that were created and designed according to the standards of the
> > good old days - that means mostly text and few graphics and no
> > JavaScript.
> 
> > Old computers will last a very long time.
> 
> I still have my Radio Shack TRS-80 model one
> and it still works perfectly today.
> 
> Does anyone here feel the today's manufacturers of printers, modems,
> sound cards NICs....etc...etc....etc... should be expected to make
> such hardware which will work with that 31yr old machine ????
> 
> Does anyone here feel that today's programmers should be writing
> programs that will run on that 31yrold machine ???
> 
> How about the old IBM XT machine that I have sitting
> in the shop that still boots-up and runs Lotus123 just fine ????
> 
> Or this NCR model 315 circa 1963 ???
> http://www.glennmcc.org/my-stuff/ncr-315.jpg
> 
> I'll bet there are still a few of 'em around
> that are in fully operational condition.
> 
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