[NSRCA-discussion] Marty

[John Ferrell]

Good idea!
Guys like me love old hand-me-downs cheap or even free...
Last week I brought a  2002 Dell into the shop that would hardly do 
anything. As it turns out it was a 2.3 G cpu with XP home AND all the 
original disks. The 128M of memory worked OK with the reloaded  original OS 
but choked up badly as more updates were installed. In fact here was not 
enough memory to even install Acrobat 9 reader! 1 gig of memory from ebay 
was $30 which solved all the problems.

Amazon.com has a 1 Terabyte Seagate External USB Drive on sale for $99.  I 
prefer Seagate because they have a free disk utility (Disk Wizard) that is 
very user friendly. It requires that one disk needs to either a Seagate or 
Maxtor.

John Ferrell  W8CCW

"All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do 
nothing." -- Edmund Burke
http://DixieNC.US


----- Original Message ----- 
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Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 11:38 PM
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Marty


> It occurs to me that if your PC is more than a couple years old and you 
> are havingf this type of problem (me too), then maybe it's time to chuck 
> the sucker and get a new one. As cheap as the desktops have become, why 
> put up with the aggravation?
>
> MattK
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Martin X. Moleski, SJ <moleski at canisius.edu>
> To: General pattern discussion <nsrca-discussion at lists.nsrca.org>
> Sent: Mon, 16 Feb 2009 5:16 pm
> Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Marty
>
> Jay Marshall wrote:
>
>> As I'm sure Tom and Marty will agree, it's not if it will fail, but
> when.
>
> That's what everyone says.  :o)
>
>> RAID is always the first choice.
>
> I have a RAID array on my desktop.
>
> I back up data to a third disk in the box.
>
> I also back up my current book projects to
> a network (when I'm on the network).
>
> The odds are against all of them collapsing at the
> same time.
>
>                Marty
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