[NSRCA-discussion] Marty

[J N Hiller]

I am enjoying this discussion. It has been enlightening. My old computer
lost a hard drive about 5 years ago which I replaced with a larger one
because it was inexpensive, thinking I could use it in the shop to run CAD
and maybe an NC router.
My replacement computer running XP has 75 GB drive with 35 used. Just a
little over 10% of that 35 is personal information files, including digital
photos. As a reference a typical file folder containing model development
files such as my Option-120 rev-A,B&C, have several large highly detailed
CAD drawings and many digital construction photos is only about 500 MB.
There has to be about a thousand Microsoft updates and every time I ask the
computer to do something it acts like it is looking at every one of them,
checking for applicability. Now they tell me I need a different keyboard in
order to install service pack 3, and of coarse a bunch more updates to that.
It's getting to where it needs to be replaced or flushed out. Maybe I should
look into an Apple replacement. Do they become as constipated?
Jim

-----Original Message-----
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[mailto:nsrca-discussion-bounces at lists.nsrca.org]On Behalf Of John Ferrell
Sent: Tuesday, February 17, 2009 8:38 AM
To: General pattern discussion
Subject: Re: [NSRCA-discussion] Marty

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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