[rollei_list] OT: Don and His Computers
- From: Marc James Small <marcsmall@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: rollei_list@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2012 13:55:45 -0400
At 12:59 PM 3/29/2012, Don Williams wrote:
At 09:41 AM 3/29/2012, Maarc wrote:
Why not install Windows XP on the new
lap-top? That would resolve every problem he
has set out and would allow him to run
Wolftenstein 3D, and whyever would anyone want
a machine which could not run that ultimate game?
Marc
Clarification-
The laptop has had XP from the beginning, it's
about 10 or more years old. The compatibility
issue is with the new HP desktop I had to buy,
which came with factory-installed Windows Home Premium on it.
The machine which slowly died had 8 hard drives
on it, was built in one of those "gamers" boxes,
and has 3 fans that make it sound like a
threshing machine. I was able to copy the data
files from 6 of the drives to my big backup
drive for the new machine and they are just
sitting in the old box until I can clean them up
and donate them. Also in the old box are 2 SCSI
drives with Open System Unix on them, will
probably let those go. There is more to tell
but it's so far off topic I'll stop here.
Don
You must be a smoker. A desktop ought to make
almost no noise with its fans unless they get
clogged with dust. I am a pipe smoker and, so,
when I start hearing noise from my computer fans,
I know that it is time for me to open the case
and to use canned air to clean it out.
I am not religious about backing up but I do keep
a thumb drive with my vital files on it which I
update monthly and, about once a year, I do a
complete system save on an external hard drive.
Marc
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Cha robh bàs fir gun ghràs fir!
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