Re: Printers

["Peter Smith" <nospam [at] zetnet.co.uk>]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Keith Powell" <Keithp [at] g4jvx.screaming.net>
To: <sheflug [at] vuw.ac.nz>
Sent: Thursday, April 13, 2000 5:38 PM
Subject: Re: Printers


> Hello Pete.
>
> Thank you for your offer of an HP printer for rough work. I do
occasionally
> have to do work which needs to be good quality as it is seen by others, so
I
> will gratefully decline your offer.
>
> I too still have an Atari stored up in the loft. What an excellent
operating
> system that was. Just a pity it wasn't developed. Mine has all of 2.5Mb of
> memory and a speed of 8Mb. A fully fledged word processor about 2Mb long.
> Most programs only had two files (program, and resource, not the hundreds
> (?) which Linux and Windows use). My 80Mb hard drive had on all the
programs
> which I needed and was less than half full!  Painfully slow, though!
>
> Not criticising Linux in any way, just commenting on the compactness of
> Atari programs.
>
> All the best.
>
> Keith Powell
>
Hi Keith
Fine, if you know any skint students who could use it give my e-mail.
You should see the Atari Falcon I still use mine most of the time,14 meg
16mhz 68030 proccessor instead of the 68000 on your st. Problem is getting
up to date programs, I need compatibility of file types for work related
stuff & while e-mail/news groups are catered for, the browsers available are
porr wee things. You would be surprised at the number of Atarians (as we
like to call ourselves) :))
there are. Take a look at comp.sys.atari.st you will be amazed by the
interest & it might bring back some old memories.
Not knocking linux eh!!! I still can't get it set up been trying for a
week,Iv'e tried suse,mandrake & redhat, Tonight it's corel turn, Free disk
off pc world,wish me luck :)
ALB
Pete

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