[LINK] Windows XP in business

[TKoltai]

Ahh yes but it's such fun to watch today's young ones try to work out
the libraries in BSD 3.4... <Snigger> (Much better than watching them
play angry birds....)

And I do have disaster recovery. I have a spare brand new 20 MB
/root-wheel SCSI fully formatted ready to go... (with the 1600 BPI 60 MB
tape backups... Although I haven't checked them for about ten years)

In case anyone is interested I also have a fully functional Netra 5 and
a 20 running SunOS 2.1 on a Rossriver processor (Fujitsu).
Why ? Because I keep thinking they'll come back into vogue. <Grin>
Actually, that's not quite true. 

Unfortunately I have some remnants of files on an old Office Automation
system called Office Power (circa 1986 - pre Unix Word Perfect) and the
only way to access the content is with old hardware. There is no
software port that will allow me to export my extensive document files
to MSWord/StarOffice... So my default is PS to Ghostscript to PDF to
MSWord. (My conversion standard for retaining formatting).
Too much work to do all the files so I only fire up the old girl (DRS
300) when I remember a file I need (which I must admit is once or twice
a year at max.)

And yes, my old HP 4500 DN printer talks nicely to Oslan for direct LPR
services. 
I get a kick out of watching a driver I wrote in (about) 1986 (10 pitch
HP emulation for QUME lasers) still print out perfectly nearly 25 years
later onto a laser printer that wasn't built until 13 years after the
driver came into being. Speaks volumes for HP's backwards compatibility
on OEM printers...

Oh for the good old days when computer "experts" were rare and
consulting fees were "double whatever number you're thinking of...".

Sigh... 
TomK

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> [mailto:link-bounces at mailman.anu.edu.au] On Behalf Of Glen Turner
> Sent: Monday, 28 May 2012 11:23 AM
> To: link at mailman.anu.edu.au
> Subject: Re: [LINK] Windows XP in business
> 
> 
> On 27/05/12 17:18, TKoltai wrote:
> > So I should update my Tahoe server running on the DRS 300 ? 
> That would 
> > be a shame, that little 80 MB SCSI drive has done an excellent job 
> > since 1987.
> 
> The short answer is "yes", because you have no viable 
> disaster recovery.
> 
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