As college IT employees, we tended to try to keep the older Operatiing
Systems as long as possible. After all, we had them all worked-out, knew
their idiosyncrasies, and were somewhat in control of them. Throwing a new
OS at us, with a change of hundreds of computers just was a no-no. At a
point, about 2 years ago, we still had NT, W2000Pro, and XPPro running on
numerous machines- and even had a few W98 systems left on particular nursing
controls. When you order, in those amounts, you can get the manufacturers
to pre-load whatever OS you want, and don't have to go with the latest and
greatest. On the other hand, we had to continually order the newest OS
systems, in order to place them in classrooms where computer education was
being taught. After all students want the latest and greatest, because
that is what their employers will want them to know when they graduate.
Many of those machines had two selectable operations systems installed,
along with one or two separate Office systems. It becomes a real mess,
trying to keep up with that, plus continually add specific programs every
semester, as selected by instructors.
Schools typically will replace all computers on a three year rotating basis,
so we are always turning in computers to the state surplus warehouses. That
is a good place to look for used computers, but sadly many of them are sold
by the pound, to resellers. Thats the used computers you see at hamfest
dealers, etc. Typically those also have the OS erased, as the whole hard
drive is reformated, to insure you dont get any information off of it, as to
the Presidents or the security guards salaries. So the reseller has put on
"last years" OS - which still isnt a bad deal. I had two of those sitting
here at the radio desk, until I built the two I am now using about 18 months
ago.
Danny Douglas N7DC
ex WN5QMX ET2US WA5UKR ET3USA
SV0WPP VS6DD N7DC/YV5 G5CTB all
DX 2-6 years each
.
QSL LOTW-buro- direct
As courtesy I upload to eQSL but if you
use that - also pls upload to LOTW
or hard card.
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Joel Kolstad" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <digitalradio@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2006 11:52 PM
Subject: [digitalradio] Re: Will Windows Vista bring a windfall?
> --- In digitalradio@yahoogroups.com, "jhaynesatalumni" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
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> > Since people are being told they have to upgrade to new faster
> > computers to run Windows Vista, I wonder if that means there will
> > be a lot of somewhat less capable machines available used or free
> > that will run Linux and earlier versions of Windows just fine.
>
> Probably, although historically I'm not sure there's even been *that
> much* of a spike when a new OS is released: The immediate adopters tend
> to be enthusiasts, and they're pretty small in number compared to,
> e.g., large coroporate purchases that tend to be staged over time (and
> not immediate).
>
> If you're lucky people looking to run the latest Linux desktops -- that
> also have a significant amount of 3D eye candy and thus require
> machines comparable to those that can run Vista well -- might do the
> same thing!
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