Re: Computers for Africa

Robert D. Haslach (mailto:rhaslach@CAPACCESS.ORG)
Wed, 3 Jan 1996 21:10:29 -0500 

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Date:         Wed, 3 Jan 1996 21:10:29 -0500
From: "Robert D. Haslach" <mailto:rhaslach@CAPACCESS.ORG>
Subject:      Re: Computers for Africa
To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>


Dear Dr Lisse - don't be fooled by your prejudice.
newer does not necessarily mean better. The M100 dumps a story in ASCII
into any computer at the end of a telephone line. Having spent *too* much
time and money trying to travel from A to B in your part of the world,
the $100 unbreakable M100 - which can be kluged into any telephone system
into the world - is a great bargain. Software is not the point.
Highest regards
Robert D. Haslach


On Wed, 3 Jan 1996, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:


> At 1:08 PM 3/1/96, Bruce L. Geisert wrote:

> [...]

>

> >I found this intriguing announcement in the NYT or another newspaper that I

> >read and I wonder if anyone knows more about it: "Free-lance financial journali

> >st Brendan Murphy of New York is collecting TRS-80 portable computers (Models

> >100, 102 and 200) sold by Radio Shack in the 1980's. The computers will be sent

> >to Mali where journalists will use them to file stories from remote areas.

> [...]

>

>

> Why not   IBM compatible 8086, 80286 which at least allow you

> to use MS-DOS? That then allows you to run uuPC (and they do that in Mali

> :-)-O), Kermit and/or FIDO and of course you can use WordStar, Word

> (yeah, folks, that ain't a rumor, some of us actually used these :-)-O)

> or WordPerfect for DOS.

>

> Who can support a TRS? Who can repair a broken TRS? What software

> would they run?

>

> This is nothing but crap, TRS-80, what is this world coming to?

>

> el

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Regards,
Robert D. Haslach
Bye