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To: Tony Viola who wrote (121305)	12/8/2000 11:03:03 AM
From: GVTucker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony, I think you might spend too much time in Silicon Valley. While my little outfit here certainly isn't Fortune 500 (heck, it isn't Fortune 5,000), I never thought I was on the Luddite end of things, either. I've still got a 486 humming along in the corner (circa 1994). The only thing I've got a 500MHz or above is a 733 MHz, and the only reason I've got that one is because Bloomberg gave it to me for being such a nice guy. Otherwise, the rest of my lineup in Pentium 90, 133 x 2, and a 300.

To: Tony Viola who wrote (121305)	12/8/2000 11:35:13 AM
From: Mary Cluney	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Tony, <<<Where is this, the Albanian national government? If I go into a school or a library or other non-profit organization, I see better machines than that, often like 500 MHz Celerons. >>> Get real. You are in La La Land. In your neighborhood, a million dollar home is a fixer upper for kids starting out in life. In the real world, for the price that you people pay for a garage, you could buy a small mansion in Oklahoma or Mississippi. I have heard that in the back offices of a GE sub (from a vendor acquaintence trying to sell some outsource services), there are applications running on Netware 3.?? software with coax cables connecting 16 ws to 3Com hubs in a LAN running on 286 servers!!! Most of the attached PCs are current hardware running Windows 98 but connect via DOS programs to 286 servers. I guess that is the old philosophy if it ain't broke don't fix it. The problem there, in this situation, is if it breaks, no one will be able to fix it as no one is left who knows anything about those DOS programs and who can you get to fix a 286? Tony, time you took a break. Take a vacation. Go back to New Hampshire, Maine, or Mass - in your old stomping grounds and visit some of the old factories and warehouses. I'll bet you can even find some secretary types pounding away on their Wang wordprocessors. Regards, Mary