Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2005/03/03
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]In a message dated 3/3/2005 8:27:26 P.M. Central Standard Time, dnygr@cshore.com writes: Every few years, our equipment needs to be replaced because it is dated. That rate of change and its accompanying cost was not true of the typewriter age. I'm not speaking against the change, but I am noting that many of us now are spending a lot more money to type our messages than we would be if we still used typewriters. Doug, Well, I think I paid more of my annual income in 1970 for an IBM Selectric typewriter than I did for this four year old 800 mhz computer I built for myself. It has two monitors, the ability to spell check. It has replaced an entire (dark)room in my house, and I edit all my photography and keep my checkbook on it. I use it to talk instantly with friends I never would have had in England, New Jersey, North Carolina and California. I can talk to my daughter in Paris and my daughter in Colorado in real time. I can book airline tickets, shop for cameras, seeing pictures of them, before I buy. I find parts for household appliances, and get stock quotes. Screw the typewriter. I like DSL and my computer. Regards, Sonny http://www.sonc.com Natchitoches, Louisiana Oldest continuous settlement in La Louisiane ?galit?, libert?, crawfish