Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2001/08/23
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]good points--until something breaks. then the widening circle of upgrades engulfs you: my scanner broke. they're cheap noadays, no problem oh-oh the new ones are USB maybe i can get a USB card hey, my OS doesn't support USB! i guess i can upgrade my OS. it's about time, anyway. maybe some of my other apps aren't supported on the new OS i suppose i should upgrade them too. where are those receipts and license keys? i had them in a file cabinet over here... you know, if i am going to do all that, might as well replace the computer. hey, these new computers don't have SCSI built in!! and so on... - -rei > From: "ray tai" <jeslam88@hotmail.com> > > Obsolesence is a relative term and with software the key is whether you need > your computer to interface with the outside world. I know folks perfectly > happy with Photoshop 4 on old Mac LCs with UMax scanners but are their > Syquest disks still the medium of choice with output providers? No. You may > be able to hold the variables constant within your own space if that is the > only space you require. > > Ray >