On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 17:13:23 -0400, Peter T. Daniels
<grammatim@...> wrote:

> And then make Windows do whatever it does as well as a Mac does.

Apparently, a Mac can handle Unicode nicely, but it needs to be brought up
to date, if it is not, already. True?

With some patience, I expect one could "inherit" a nice Windows (really,
"x86") machine by working through Freecycle NYC. (Try <www.freecycle.org>
to start; nationwide.)

General rules are that you qualify by first having something to offer and
posting a message saying what it is, then arranging for the interested
party to pick it up. Seems that more than a few businesses and
professionals discard computers that could still work very well for
almosht anyone because too many people are close to clueless about how to
do a "housecleaning " in their machines. Instead , they buy new machines.
Horrifies me.

Try Linspire, btw. Nice (at least) for non-technical folk, and doesn't
require huge resources (superfast CPU, oodles of RAM and disk space.)

--
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The curious hermit -- autodidact and polymath
Hope for these times: Paul Rogat Loeb's book --
"The Impossible Will Take a Little While:..."