[or-roots] Re: Or-roots and AOL - I was wrong!

[Bill & Chris Strickland]

DaviesWalt at cs.com wrote:
> 
> Well I guess I better trash this new 1.7 gig Sony Vaio with its 80 gig
> hard-drive and go back to my old TI/99-4a with its 300 baud modem so
> that I don't upset Bill, Cecil and David. BUMMER.

Don't expect you to -- just use it to send plain text e-mail, or won't
it do that?
 
> PS David you can set your screen to 480x640 and read that e-mail a
> little easier.

And then back to read the next one?
 
> And Bill don't use that old stuff about third world genealogist having
> those 86s or 88s I not buying that for a minute.

Good, 'cause those aren't sales -- they are donations, but even so, a 32
bit Windows version won't hardly run on a 486 with 4 Meg ram & a 5 MB
hard drive. They need 3.x, which by your definitions is also dark age.
 
> And Cecil you can join me now or join me later but take my word for it
> you will join me sooner or later.

Maybe he'll get smart and get a Powerbook or i-book instead ...
 
> PS who cares about those Mac users anyway, after all they are a dying
> breed.  giggle

But probably the best genealogy program out there, Reunion, requires a
Mac platform to run. Best non-graphical reason there is to even think
about finding one in a dumpster. 

:)

Bill Strickland