----- Original Message ---- > From: Robert Derman <robert.der...@pressenter.com> > I remember that optical disks started to replace floppies in about 1995 >because Win-95 came either way. Win-98 was CD only. I will admit that DVD >burners didn't become affordable until about 2005, but most of what I built in > >2000 through 2004 had either a CD burner and a DVD read only, or from 2003 on >combo drives, CD burn, DVD read only. But my point here is that 2004 and >older >machines are horribly obsolete today, and the vast majority of them have been >scrapped! Also most of these old clunkers are only found in the more >technologically advanced countries, because the 3rd world countries didn't >start >to get computers in any significant numbers until after the time of the old >floppy based machines. >
FYI - there are a lot of organizations that take any computer they can - regardless of age - and refurb it and ship it to 3rd world countries so that some people can simply _have_ a computer. Doesn't matter that it's 10 or 15 years old - as long as it runs and runs well. They'll find a configuration that will run on it. Granted, most of such computer do meet the trash can; but they are out there and should not be discounted. $0.02 Ben -- Unsubscribe instructions: E-mail to discuss+h...@documentfoundation.org Archive: http://www.documentfoundation.org/lists/discuss/ *** All posts to this list are publicly archived for eternity ***
