Re: [MBZ] OT: Bought a new computer many years ago

2012-01-31 Thread Hendrik Fay
I had a similar experience back in 95 when I bought our first compluter. Salesbloke showed us the Mac which had this old geezer sitting in a library of sorts, that walked to the shelf and got you stuff, can't remember which OS that was, then showed us the Win95 OS which seemed to me to be more

Re: [MBZ] OT: Bought a new computer many years ago

2012-01-31 Thread E M
Way back when I got my first Apple, PCs were for computer geeks who really knew what they were doing, and could speak computer gibberish. Apples were for guys like me who were just moving up from their Underwoods. Hee hee Ed 300E On 31 January 2012 17:12, Hendrik Fay heni...@ozemail.com.au

Re: [MBZ] OT: Bought a new computer many years ago

2012-01-31 Thread Hendrik Fay
Yeah it took me quite a few years of bashing on the keyboard to get the confidence to have a crack at Linux. Hendrik who likes to have a go E M wrote: Way back when I got my first Apple, PCs were for computer geeks who really knew what they were doing, and could speak computer gibberish.

Re: [MBZ] OT: Bought a new computer many years ago

2012-01-31 Thread Alex Chamberlain
On Jan 31, 2012 2:13 PM, Hendrik Fay heni...@ozemail.com.au wrote: Salesbloke showed us the Mac which had this old geezer sitting in a library of sorts, that walked to the shelf and got you stuff, That was Microsoft BOB, not anything on the Mac. Alex ___

Re: [MBZ] OT: Bought a new computer many years ago

2012-01-31 Thread Hans Neureiter
I'd have no clue what my Deskt top is or was. The only thing left of the original 'no brand' is the 30 gig HD which serves still as a back-up. Several MB upgrades, add-on HD's, what not At this time: ASUS MB ( 4 Gig IIntel processor) 30 Gig PATA HD 80Gig SATA 140 Gig SATA CD Rom DVDRW 3.5 Floppy