Subj : SD COMPUTER SOCIETY
To   : Tom Walker
From : Roy Witt
Date : Sat Jan 29 2005 04:11 pm

Hello Tom.

29 Jan 05 13:50, you wrote to me:

 TW> -> I don't know how technically able one has to be. My first PC was a
 TW> 286-12
 TW> -> and I paid over $1800 for it. When I got it home, I opened it up
 TW> and was -> amazed at how little there was to it. So, I've never
 TW> bought an assembled -> PC until lately. The author of 'Lindows'
 TW> (Linux with windows) has placed a -> nice computer with a local
 TW> franchise for less than $200, including -> everything but a monitor.
 TW> IMO, the OS sucks, but the computer was worth -> the money.

 TW>  I advise anyone that already has an Operating System CD and CD's for
 TW> theri Favorate software to buy one of those, dump the "Lindows" OS,
 TW> and install their programs. About the Cheapest Upgrade arround for
 TW> those with old less than 800 Meg to 1 gig CPU's.

I've been contemplating dumping Lindows and installing W2k. That
particular PC has an AMD 3meg processor and plenty of memory in it and a
20gig hd...


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