[arachne] Re: handheld printer

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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

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Glenn Gilbreath Jr.
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Greg Mayman" <gmone@xxxxxxxxxx>
To: arachne@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Sent: 5/25/2009 6:26 PM
Subject: [arachne] Re: handheld printer

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On Sun, 24 May 2009 20:31:52 -0500, Glenn Gilbreath Jr. wrote:

> Perhaps we in the old PC club expect too much??  I don't know, but I someti
> mes wonder.

We just expect things to be usable for the whole of their lives. We
don't subscribe to the ethic that everything has to be replaced
regularly, regardless of whether it is still working properly.

Of course that is TOTALLY against the usual marketting ethic that the
rest of the world wants to subscribe to.


    
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