Message-ID: <v0213050aad6e07efeb59@[196.20.20.2]> Date: Thu, 14 Mar 1996 18:35:38 +0100 From: Dr Eberhard W Lisse <mailto:el@LISSE.NA> Subject: Re: What is the best LapTop for Central Africa? To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
At 2:37 PM 14/3/96, Abubakr Alkhalifa wrote: >On Tue, 12 Mar 1996, Dr Eberhard W Lisse wrote:
>> >> I would like to have some suggestions what the best LapTop would be for use
>> >> in francophone Central Africa. It would be for use by researchers in hot and
>> >> moist climate.
>> [...]
>> >We have to find a way to produce, modify or at least encourage the
>> >production of appropriate technologies. A LapTop is a perfect example. A
>> >special model can be designed specially to resist e.g. heat, moisture and
>> >dust that prevail in many Developing Countries.
>> [...]
[...] >> But what does this have to do with the question I asked?
>>
>
>My point is that: It would be a lot better for us and our generations to
>come to be far sighted enough to think about solving the root causes of
>any problem.
Hmm, thinking or solving?
>
>BTW, everyone knows (including me) that it was NOT an answer to
>your question, it was an idea inspired by the question, and I wanted to
>share with the List(s). That's one way for communicating ideas.
But it is nonsense.
If you designe something like this specially you will not be able to afford it and you won't have the service locally. You want to use *HUGE* companies which have the support in let's say St. Louis, Senegal.
el
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