Message-ID: <Pine.SOL.3.91.960513082530.5323A-100000@galadriel> Date: Mon, 13 May 1996 08:30:42 -0700 From: Kevin Lautz <mailto:lautzktl@DFW.WA.GOV> Subject: Re: Computers to Africa To: Multiple recipients of list DEVEL-L <mailto:DEVEL-L@AMERICAN.EDU>
> I think Marcus Day really came to the core of the problem. If you send "old"
> or new equipment without manuals, spare parts, software or support it is
> waste of money. Especially for old equipment this is true, because where do
> you find a 20 MB MFM or a 20 MB 8 bits IDE harddisk for a XT nowadays? The
> smallest harddisk you nowadays find at a computer parts shop is 540 MB E-IDE.
Seems to me that older computers are like Volvos in that you get them in pairs...one to use, and one for parts. :-)
Kevin Lautz Olympia WA
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