Digital divide.

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I just bought a Celeron 500 box with 128 megs of ram and a 10 gig hard drive
for $60 Cdn. from a local guy who has dozens from off-lease. I fired it up
with winXP after adding a keyboard and mouse. It worked wonderfully
providing all drivers and recognising an old epson printer and a no-name
scanner. I even installed music match jukebox with a USB pen drive. I'm
going to keep this one as a pristine music and photo manipulation machine
not connected to the internet, but I'm going back to get 5 more in order to
give them or sell at cost to people I know who can't afford or maintain a
computer. I think this is great because it's the first time winXP and a
capable machine are available to people I really like and know are
intelligent but have chaotic lives (poverty, substance abuse) but the
children are very enthusiastic and XP is so much more forgiving than win98.
So folks, I exhort you to do the same in your local , I should add that I
have a copy of XP for academic purposes which can be loaded without limit
but you'll soon be approached by well-heeled friends who just want a cheap
second computer- I steadfastly refuse, just want to get computer literacy
and net access where it wouldn't get to otherwise.
 
Pike said:
I should add that I have a copy of XP for academic
purposes which can be loaded without limit
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Oh really? Which kind of license is that? Please tell
us, we'd love to know. Come on now, don't be shy.
 
Pike said:
I just bought a Celeron 500 box with 128 megs of ram and a 10 gig
hard drive for $60 Cdn. from a local guy who has dozens from
off-lease. I fired it up with winXP after adding a keyboard and
mouse. It worked wonderfully providing all drivers and recognising an
old epson printer and a no-name scanner. I even installed music match
jukebox with a USB pen drive. I'm going to keep this one as a
pristine music and photo manipulation machine not connected to the
internet, but I'm going back to get 5 more in order to give them or
sell at cost to people I know who can't afford or maintain a
computer. I think this is great because it's the first time winXP and
a capable machine are available to people I really like and know are
intelligent but have chaotic lives (poverty, substance abuse) but the
children are very enthusiastic and XP is so much more forgiving than
win98. So folks, I exhort you to do the same in your local , I should
add that I have a copy of XP for academic purposes which can be
loaded without limit but you'll soon be approached by well-heeled
friends who just want a cheap second computer- I steadfastly refuse,
just want to get computer literacy and net access where it wouldn't
get to otherwise.
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Ah, the Robbing Hood syndrome. It's okay to pirate software because
it's for intelligent people who lead chaotic lives.
This has got to be a troll.

Martin
 
I'll bet you are correct. Get the poor and downtrodden off drugs and hooked
on porn on the internet hehe.
 
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