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Old 10-05-2012, 08:39 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Neat little computer. What didn't seem obvious is the input and display options. I have no interest in using a touch screen. My wifes phone has that, screen is too small for me to see easy and it seems very inefficient to type on. Maybe I could get used to it.

At home we use a 10 year old office desk top running Ubuntu. Works pretty well. Would barely run anything and was slow running nearly everything. I doubt if it efficient but it is obsolete for what it was purchased for. Yet works great for what it is being used for now. We have one computer that runs DOS, It drives a visual fields processor and does fine.

My first experience with digital circuits was in 70 or 71. I was a trained repairman for the digital and analog circuits in tape recorders for recording voice and digital data for the army's division of NSA.

I got my first computer in the mid 70's It had 4kb of memory and a tape drive. I still use a lens calculation program that I wrote for it back then. It runs on basica. Would take 10 minutes to load it on tape but is an icon on my windows desktop and loads nearly instantly. I probably run the program once a month. If I were to ever totally redo the calculator I would make it in a spread sheet. At the time I didn't even know what a spreadsheet was. The original TI computer is in the back of a closet right now in the original box.

Most of my computing time is record keeping for my business, I would say about half of my computing power is sucked up by anti virus/malware software. I don't have time to fix any broken office machine I depend on the machines to run so I can do my work.

Something like these compact machines running efficient operating systems/software would probably suit me well for home use, thanks for posting the info.
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