Gateway? I think you misspelled "Northgate". The Omnikey Ultra was my all time favorite.
I completely agree. I own both the Northgate and several Model M's, and the Northgate Omnikey Ultra is worlds better than the IBM or Gateway keyboards.
My first computer was a used IBM PC-1, which had 64 K RAM on the motherboard and the 4.77 MHz 8088 CPU, and two 5 1/4" floppy drives. I paid $1300 in 1983 including an AST 6 Pack Plus (clock/calendar/serial/parallel/384K RAM) and a Hercules-compatible video card and a monochrome monitor. I later paid $600 (and $50 tax) for a 40 MB Plus Hard Card, which had 39 ms seek time for a full card-slot HDD.
I have been waiting to upgrade, too, but Apple has continued their pursuit of thinness while abandoning the "Pro" market -- specifically professionals using Macs for computing rather than as a fashion accessory. The value and longevity of Macs has decreased significantly from Apple's neglect of both their laptop and desktop product lines.
While most Mac owners won't need to upgrade RAM or disk, I have done so on every Mac I've owned. I don't care about thinness or weight as much as function, compute power, and storage. I have nearly no reason to buy a computer with a slow CPU, small screen, or small SSD, yet Apple relentlessly offers non-Pro computer specs lately.
Phone and tablet revenue have so eclipsed computer revenue that Apple is financially allowed to offer dismal upgrades without recourse. I can only hope their recent Mac sales declines will be analyzed as Apple's own fault, as there are tons of folks desiring to upgrade to a more powerful Mac product.
About 20 months ago, AT&T sent me a letter offering a free Android phone to replace my otherwise-working 5 year old BlackBerry 8900 phone, so they could begin turning off 2G. They said my old phone's coverage would become progressively worse, and I needed to upgrade to a newer device for connectivity to their network. I accepted their free offer, but immediately bought a used BlackBerry Q10, which I use every day, while the LG Optimus Pro gets rarely used as a WiFi-only small tablet.
I'll second your comment on the physical keyboard for faster typing, plus my BlackBerry Q10 get 2.5 times better battery life on long phone calls than my work iPhone 5s. My previous BlackBerry lasted 5 years, & I only replaced the battery (for $5) and the trackball (for $9). That long-life product convinced me to buy another BlackBerry.
As an example of BlackBerry making high quality phones, after my previous BlackBerry phone lasted almost 5 years, I bought a new BlackBerry Q10 a couple months ago. I have nearly no complaints about it. It's a great phone first, & a smart phone as a bonus. My Q10 gets about 2.5 times the battery life of my work-provided iPhone 5s on long conference calls. I also type much faster & more accurately on a physical keyboard. When folks see my new BlackBerry, lots of them say they still miss their BlackBerrys.
I completely agree. And somewhat on-topic: Ever since I bought my Mac, I've searched for a good word processor for it. I bought iWorks & use NeoOffice/J, but haven't been satisfied. Neither can read documents containing tables from either WordPerfect or Word. I even called Corel to see if they knew of a Mac version, but WordPerfect discontinued their Mac version about 8 years ago.
I have always used and loved WordPerfect on a PC for nearly 20 years now.
It's sad to me that superior products so often lose to superior marketing of mediocre products. I've often said that Microsoft's motto is "superior marketing for mediocre products", but I later simplified Microsoft's motto to: "mediocrity for the masses".
I dumped Fry's & BestBuy years ago for Micro Center. No bait & switch, pleasant return experiences, no guessing whether merchandise has been previously sold & returned, surprisingly knowledgable sales folks, great prices, and more. I often research products & prices at Micro Center's online store, which indicates items that have rebates or sales, but usually go to the store for my purchases. Although Micro Center's sales force became partially commissioned in the past year or two, I've never had a pushy sales person there, and I've been surprised more than once by their product knowledge. Micro Center has certainly become my favorite retail computer store.
While not cheap, I use the NVIDIA Quadro4 NVS dual headed card with 2 LCD's attached. Using drivers downloaded from NVIDIA, it works under Linux (Slackware 9 & 10; under both 2.4 & 2.6 kernels). There are some programs that can't handle the second monitor, but most of the time it's no problem. The productivity increase has been noticable.
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Blue Mountain Internet (bmi.net) has provided reliable dialup ISP service to Walla Walla for many years. Charter Cable now provides cable internet, too.
After my kids got hooked on DDR at a Nickel-Nickel arcade, I called Red Octane who makes one of the best DDR dance pads available. They were very helpful. I bought a bundle with Konami's DDR MAX 2 and Red Octane's Ignition 2.0 Pad. The dance pad has sensors over the entire area, and doesn't slip on the floor (the cheap mats do slip & wear out quickly). Konami makes DDR games for PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2, XBox, & PC. There is a USB adapter available (about $15 US) to connect the dance pad to play the PC version. The game comes with several levels, probably 100 songs, & can be enjoyed by beginners and up. The game also also has a training mode to teach technique, and a workout mode. Konami is releasing version 3 of DDR Max this fall.
I'm not sure even bank vaults have walls four feet thick. Your basement might have room for a beowolf cluster of noisy servers if your walls weren't so thick.
Then you should know that Crystal Shanda Leer's father was William Leer, the inventor of the Leer Jet. I went to school with a girl named Candy Barr. My brother dated a girl named Sandy Beach.
You mention sending the drive to Ontrack. If you did, IMO, you'd be wasting money. Data Mechanix is located down the street from Ontrack (also in Irvine, CA) and is less expensive than Ontrack for data recovery. If they can't retrieve your data, they don't charge you anything, unlike the better-known company. I've used Data Mechanix several times with great success. I found their ad trade magazines.
The Bosch mixer has more torque than the KitchenAid, and comes with bread dough hook for kneading bread, in addition to mixing. My mom has used her Bosch mixer for over 20 years without a problem. I bought my Bosch mixer a couple years ago, and love it. You can order attachments to use it as a blender, food processor, etc.
Casio made several versions of calculator watches before the databank watch. The first Casio calculator watch I owned had a game built in, where random numbers would move across the watch display at increasingly faster speeds depending on what game level you achieved. You pressed the numbers on the calculator keypad to make the numbers disappear before they moved to the end of the display. I also still have a stainless steel Casio calculator watch which has built in functions for algebra (such as 1/x x/y x^y), trigonometry (such as sin cos arctan), conversions ( such as m->ft mi->km in->cm gal->l), and 3 memory storage variables. No "video" game, like the first watch, however. It's definitely one of the best watches I've ever used.
I downloaded the SuSE 8.2 and 9.0 demo iso's just a couple nights ago from a North American SuSE mirror located about 60 miles from me. It was the highest average download rate I've ever seen on my cable modem -- over 3 MBps average for each 650 MB download!
According to what I read, there was a preparatory worm a few weeks ago which went basically undetected, since its payload did no drastic harm except opening ports. Those newly opened ports allowed otherwise patched PC to be affected by msblast.exe.
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Gateway? I think you misspelled "Northgate". The Omnikey Ultra was my all time favorite.
I completely agree. I own both the Northgate and several Model M's, and the Northgate Omnikey Ultra is worlds better than the IBM or Gateway keyboards.
My first computer was a used IBM PC-1, which had 64 K RAM on the motherboard and the 4.77 MHz 8088 CPU, and two 5 1/4" floppy drives. I paid $1300 in 1983 including an AST 6 Pack Plus (clock/calendar/serial/parallel/384K RAM) and a Hercules-compatible video card and a monochrome monitor. I later paid $600 (and $50 tax) for a 40 MB Plus Hard Card, which had 39 ms seek time for a full card-slot HDD.
I have been waiting to upgrade, too, but Apple has continued their pursuit of thinness while abandoning the "Pro" market -- specifically professionals using Macs for computing rather than as a fashion accessory. The value and longevity of Macs has decreased significantly from Apple's neglect of both their laptop and desktop product lines.
While most Mac owners won't need to upgrade RAM or disk, I have done so on every Mac I've owned. I don't care about thinness or weight as much as function, compute power, and storage. I have nearly no reason to buy a computer with a slow CPU, small screen, or small SSD, yet Apple relentlessly offers non-Pro computer specs lately.
Phone and tablet revenue have so eclipsed computer revenue that Apple is financially allowed to offer dismal upgrades without recourse. I can only hope their recent Mac sales declines will be analyzed as Apple's own fault, as there are tons of folks desiring to upgrade to a more powerful Mac product.
About 20 months ago, AT&T sent me a letter offering a free Android phone to replace my otherwise-working 5 year old BlackBerry 8900 phone, so they could begin turning off 2G. They said my old phone's coverage would become progressively worse, and I needed to upgrade to a newer device for connectivity to their network. I accepted their free offer, but immediately bought a used BlackBerry Q10, which I use every day, while the LG Optimus Pro gets rarely used as a WiFi-only small tablet.
I'll second your comment on the physical keyboard for faster typing, plus my BlackBerry Q10 get 2.5 times better battery life on long phone calls than my work iPhone 5s. My previous BlackBerry lasted 5 years, & I only replaced the battery (for $5) and the trackball (for $9). That long-life product convinced me to buy another BlackBerry.
As an example of BlackBerry making high quality phones, after my previous BlackBerry phone lasted almost 5 years, I bought a new BlackBerry Q10 a couple months ago. I have nearly no complaints about it. It's a great phone first, & a smart phone as a bonus. My Q10 gets about 2.5 times the battery life of my work-provided iPhone 5s on long conference calls. I also type much faster & more accurately on a physical keyboard. When folks see my new BlackBerry, lots of them say they still miss their BlackBerrys.
I completely agree. And somewhat on-topic: Ever since I bought my Mac, I've searched for a good word processor for it. I bought iWorks & use NeoOffice/J, but haven't been satisfied. Neither can read documents containing tables from either WordPerfect or Word. I even called Corel to see if they knew of a Mac version, but WordPerfect discontinued their Mac version about 8 years ago.
I have always used and loved WordPerfect on a PC for nearly 20 years now.
It's sad to me that superior products so often lose to superior marketing of mediocre products. I've often said that Microsoft's motto is "superior marketing for mediocre products", but I later simplified Microsoft's motto to: "mediocrity for the masses".
... Micro Center has always been good to me.
I dumped Fry's & BestBuy years ago for Micro Center. No bait & switch, pleasant return experiences, no guessing whether merchandise has been previously sold & returned, surprisingly knowledgable sales folks, great prices, and more. I often research products & prices at Micro Center's online store, which indicates items that have rebates or sales, but usually go to the store for my purchases. Although Micro Center's sales force became partially commissioned in the past year or two, I've never had a pushy sales person there, and I've been surprised more than once by their product knowledge. Micro Center has certainly become my favorite retail computer store.
While not cheap, I use the NVIDIA Quadro4 NVS dual headed card with 2 LCD's attached. Using drivers downloaded from NVIDIA, it works under Linux (Slackware 9 & 10; under both 2.4 & 2.6 kernels). There are some programs that can't handle the second monitor, but most of the time it's no problem. The productivity increase has been noticable.
Blue Mountain Internet (bmi.net) has provided reliable dialup ISP service to Walla Walla for many years. Charter Cable now provides cable internet, too.
After my kids got hooked on DDR at a Nickel-Nickel arcade, I called Red Octane who makes one of the best DDR dance pads available. They were very helpful. I bought a bundle with Konami's DDR MAX 2 and Red Octane's Ignition 2.0 Pad. The dance pad has sensors over the entire area, and doesn't slip on the floor (the cheap mats do slip & wear out quickly). Konami makes DDR games for PlayStation 1, PlayStation 2, XBox, & PC. There is a USB adapter available (about $15 US) to connect the dance pad to play the PC version. The game comes with several levels, probably 100 songs, & can be enjoyed by beginners and up. The game also also has a training mode to teach technique, and a workout mode. Konami is releasing version 3 of DDR Max this fall.
with 4' thick granite walls
I'm not sure even bank vaults have walls four feet thick. Your basement might have room for a beowolf cluster of noisy servers if your walls weren't so thick.
I once dated a girl named Crystal Shanda Leer.
Then you should know that Crystal Shanda Leer's father was William Leer, the inventor of the Leer Jet.
I went to school with a girl named Candy Barr. My brother dated a girl named Sandy Beach.
...it's been almost ten years since anyone has had to edit a config.sys file.
You mean except for the one I needed to edit last week!
You mention sending the drive to Ontrack. If you did, IMO, you'd be wasting money. Data Mechanix is located down the street from Ontrack (also in Irvine, CA) and is less expensive than Ontrack for data recovery. If they can't retrieve your data, they don't charge you anything, unlike the better-known company. I've used Data Mechanix several times with great success. I found their ad trade magazines.
The Bosch mixer has more torque than the KitchenAid, and comes with bread dough hook for kneading bread, in addition to mixing. My mom has used her Bosch mixer for over 20 years without a problem. I bought my Bosch mixer a couple years ago, and love it. You can order attachments to use it as a blender, food processor, etc.
Casio made several versions of calculator watches before the databank watch. The first Casio calculator watch I owned had a game built in, where random numbers would move across the watch display at increasingly faster speeds depending on what game level you achieved. You pressed the numbers on the calculator keypad to make the numbers disappear before they moved to the end of the display. I also still have a stainless steel Casio calculator watch which has built in functions for algebra (such as 1/x x/y x^y), trigonometry (such as sin cos arctan), conversions ( such as m->ft mi->km in->cm gal->l), and 3 memory storage variables. No "video" game, like the first watch, however. It's definitely one of the best watches I've ever used.
I downloaded the SuSE 8.2 and 9.0 demo iso's just a couple nights ago from a North American SuSE mirror located about 60 miles from me. It was the highest average download rate I've ever seen on my cable modem -- over 3 MBps average for each 650 MB download!
According to what I read, there was a preparatory worm a few weeks ago which went basically undetected, since its payload did no drastic harm except opening ports. Those newly opened ports allowed otherwise patched PC to be affected by msblast.exe.