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+GATE1
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| Filename: | +GATE1 |
| Read OK: | ✔ |
| File size: | 1650 bytes |
| Load address: | 2B204556 |
| Exec address: | 45544147 |
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File contents
16 November 1998
From: Ross Little
The Old Police House, Main Rd, Filby, Gt Yarmouth, NR29 3HY
Dear Gus,
It was interesting to read in EUG39 regarding a few people considering or
planning to upgrade to PCs, such as the new Pentium IIs.
Some people might recall I took the plunge some time ago. It was only
ever because it was necessary but I did know what I was letting myself in
for after having borrowed my brother's.
Like I say, I did need it, and I was interested in logging on to the Net,
but I finally made my purchase because my machine was so very cheap.
In the few weeks I had been planning my purchase, the man who sold me the
machine was able to offer a machine of far higher specifications (e.g.
twice the memory etc!) for a little less money.
I got the machine home.
It was fine.
I was chuffed about the price (about `885) and, back then, the machine
specifications made it a relatively powerful machine (133MHz 586, 16Mb
Ram, 1.04Gb HDD, 14.4Kb modem etc.).
It had Windows 95 on CD, not installed, so one of the first things I did
was to install it.
Although the machine was quite reasonable under Windows 3.11, it virtually
ground to a halt with 95. I'm not talking a slight reduction in speed: it
was painful to watch...
Now that's all fair enough. My machine is quite possibly underclocked and
I don't doubt the drivers have been installed poorly and the design
shoddy. I was obviously aware at the time that the machine would lose
value, and it has now lost at least half. I was also aware that it would
be obsolete as soon as I unpacked it (I tell a lie, it lasted a few weeks
until Pentiums were announced).
What I have a problem with is this: I paid my money, like thousands every
week, for a machine which was supposed to handle my requirements for now.
But when I come to do some real work on the machine, like essay writing, I
have to spend five minutes waiting for the machine to start-up. I then
have to load up my word-processor and try typing my text. What's the
chances the machine will keep changing my font without my wanting it to?
And then the size. I decide to change the printer by installing my
drivers and all printing becomes skewed. I choose to change the start-up
options and the computer seems to take it as a personal insult. Then I
find my files have been corrupted.
Let's try and resurrect them - that's sorted.
Now I'll carry on writing my essay I started on another computer. Pop the
disk in the drive, load it. Oh, different version of Word. Tell it what
I'm using. All the fonts are of course different to those on the original
computer. Fair enough - I don't have those fonts - but couldn't its
seemingly random selection be of a legible font?
Ok, I'll select my text, change the font. Huh? Half the words have
changed to expletives. Hmm, yet another virus. Now no-one can take a
disk off my computer until I've eradicated it.
Maybe I'll blunder through and print it off at the end but my point is
this: half of the problems I've mentioned are due to the machine being
more complex than I need.
When do I use 250 fonts in a document?
How many reports do I write which require such complex page layouts?
Am I expected to mail merge every day?
When did I last use a macro, the medium of the e-mail viruses? Sure, I
may do one of these things every so often, but in the same way as if I
want to watch a reel-to-reel film I'll borrow a projector, when I want to
write a novel I'll borrow a computer - its not like they're hard to come
across.
It's all very well to say that it's so I have the capability of doing
these things but think about this: if I do them so rarely, how am I going
to manage to do them on my home computer with no-one's guidance when the
help files are 'perfectly accurate but practically useless'?
And suppose I get the advice?
You could say that, though I can count on one hand the number of formal
reports I've had to write, at least what has been referred to as the
Microsoft Bloat Factor has meant my machine could handle them.
Did it ever! Handling a 14,000 word report with a few styles, fonts,
footnotes and diagrams is as close to the limit of MS Word as you're
likely to come!
Needless to say, MY computer ground to a halt so I had to do them on
college machines as if I only had a humble text-only word processor at
home.
So basically, I have paid good money for a program which is so complex I
find it difficult (if not impossible) to get my essays set out how I want
them but when I talk about fairly complex work it goes on a sit-down
strike. Is this just about the word-processor though? Nope. You can
read it for all of the machine's killer apps.
Fine. So seeing as far and away the machine is too powerful for most of
my general needs (and it appears that with newer machines, the problems
get bigger), at least they won't be encouraging me to upgrade.
Oh, I'm sorry, I'm being nieve again. But why do I want a machine which
has more power when mine has already got too much?
The industry is not
channelled into making them simpler. If that were the case, they wouldn't
be getting more and more tiresome when each new package comes out. I'm
wasting my money on a machine like that.
My computer cost me `885 in August 1996. It is now November 1998 and I
will consider myself lucky if I get more than `300-odd. I have spent `585
on a machine which I have used for ... word processing. And dodgy word
processing at that.
What happened to all the other stuff I was going to do?
Wasn't I going to be a power user, get my money's worth and all that?
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I| 000007e0 20 74 68 65 6e 0d 68 61 76 65 20 74 6f 20 6c 6f | then.have to lo| 000007f0 61 64 20 75 70 20 6d 79 20 77 6f 72 64 2d 70 72 |ad up my word-pr| 00000800 6f 63 65 73 73 6f 72 20 61 6e 64 20 74 72 79 20 |ocessor and try | 00000810 74 79 70 69 6e 67 20 6d 79 20 74 65 78 74 2e 20 |typing my text. | 00000820 20 57 68 61 74 27 73 20 74 68 65 0d 63 68 61 6e | What's the.chan| 00000830 63 65 73 20 74 68 65 20 6d 61 63 68 69 6e 65 20 |ces the machine | 00000840 77 69 6c 6c 20 6b 65 65 70 20 63 68 61 6e 67 69 |will keep changi| 00000850 6e 67 20 6d 79 20 66 6f 6e 74 20 77 69 74 68 6f |ng my font witho| 00000860 75 74 20 6d 79 20 77 61 6e 74 69 6e 67 20 69 74 |ut my wanting it| 00000870 20 74 6f 3f 20 0d 0d 41 6e 64 20 74 68 65 6e 20 | to? ..And then | 00000880 74 68 65 20 73 69 7a 65 2e 20 20 49 20 64 65 63 |the size. I dec| 00000890 69 64 65 20 74 6f 20 63 68 61 6e 67 65 20 74 68 |ide to change th| 000008a0 65 20 70 72 69 6e 74 65 72 20 62 79 20 69 6e 73 |e printer by ins| 000008b0 74 61 6c 6c 69 6e 67 20 6d 79 0d 64 72 69 76 65 |talling my.drive| 000008c0 72 73 20 61 6e 64 20 61 6c 6c 20 70 72 69 6e 74 |rs and all print| 000008d0 69 6e 67 20 62 65 63 6f 6d 65 73 20 73 6b 65 77 |ing becomes skew| 000008e0 65 64 2e 20 20 49 20 63 68 6f 6f 73 65 20 74 6f |ed. I choose to| 000008f0 20 63 68 61 6e 67 65 20 74 68 65 20 73 74 61 72 | change the star| 00000900 74 2d 75 70 0d 6f 70 74 69 6f 6e 73 20 61 6e 64 |t-up.options and| 00000910 20 74 68 65 20 63 6f 6d 70 75 74 65 72 20 73 65 | the computer se| 00000920 65 6d 73 20 74 6f 20 74 61 6b 65 20 69 74 20 61 |ems to take it a| 00000930 73 20 61 20 70 65 72 73 6f 6e 61 6c 20 69 6e 73 |s a personal ins| 00000940 75 6c 74 2e 20 20 54 68 65 6e 20 49 0d 66 69 6e |ult. Then I.fin| 00000950 64 20 6d 79 20 66 69 6c 65 73 20 68 61 76 65 20 |d my files have | 00000960 62 65 65 6e 20 63 6f 72 72 75 70 74 65 64 2e 20 |been corrupted. | 00000970 20 0d 0d 4c 65 74 27 73 20 74 72 79 20 61 6e 64 | ..Let's try and| 00000980 20 72 65 73 75 72 72 65 63 74 20 74 68 65 6d 20 | resurrect them | 00000990 2d 20 74 68 61 74 27 73 20 73 6f 72 74 65 64 2e |- that's sorted.| 000009a0 20 20 0d 0d 4e 6f 77 20 49 27 6c 6c 20 63 61 72 | ..Now I'll car| 000009b0 72 79 20 6f 6e 20 77 72 69 74 69 6e 67 20 6d 79 |ry on writing my| 000009c0 20 65 73 73 61 79 20 49 20 73 74 61 72 74 65 64 | essay I started| 000009d0 20 6f 6e 20 61 6e 6f 74 68 65 72 20 63 6f 6d 70 | on another comp| 000009e0 75 74 65 72 2e 20 20 50 6f 70 20 74 68 65 0d 64 |uter. Pop the.d| 000009f0 69 73 6b 20 69 6e 20 74 68 65 20 64 72 69 76 65 |isk in the drive| 00000a00 2c 20 6c 6f 61 64 20 69 74 2e 20 20 4f 68 2c 20 |, load it. Oh, | 00000a10 64 69 66 66 65 72 65 6e 74 20 76 65 72 73 69 6f |different versio| 00000a20 6e 20 6f 66 20 57 6f 72 64 2e 20 20 54 65 6c 6c |n of Word. Tell| 00000a30 20 69 74 20 77 68 61 74 0d 49 27 6d 20 75 73 69 | it what.I'm usi| 00000a40 6e 67 2e 20 20 41 6c 6c 20 74 68 65 20 66 6f 6e |ng. All the fon| 00000a50 74 73 20 61 72 65 20 6f 66 20 63 6f 75 72 73 65 |ts are of course| 00000a60 20 64 69 66 66 65 72 65 6e 74 20 74 6f 20 74 68 | different to th| 00000a70 6f 73 65 20 6f 6e 20 74 68 65 20 6f 72 69 67 69 |ose on the origi| 00000a80 6e 61 6c 0d 63 6f 6d 70 75 74 65 72 2e 20 20 46 |nal.computer. F| 00000a90 61 69 72 20 65 6e 6f 75 67 68 20 2d 20 49 20 64 |air enough - I d| 00000aa0 6f 6e 27 74 20 68 61 76 65 20 74 68 6f 73 65 20 |on't have those | 00000ab0 66 6f 6e 74 73 20 2d 20 62 75 74 20 63 6f 75 6c |fonts - but coul| 00000ac0 64 6e 27 74 20 69 74 73 0d 73 65 65 6d 69 6e 67 |dn't its.seeming| 00000ad0 6c 79 20 72 61 6e 64 6f 6d 20 73 65 6c 65 63 74 |ly random select| 00000ae0 69 6f 6e 20 62 65 20 6f 66 20 61 20 6c 65 67 69 |ion be of a legi| 00000af0 62 6c 65 20 66 6f 6e 74 3f 20 20 0d 0d 4f 6b 2c |ble font? ..Ok,| 00000b00 20 49 27 6c 6c 20 73 65 6c 65 63 74 20 6d 79 20 | I'll select my | 00000b10 74 65 78 74 2c 20 63 68 61 6e 67 65 20 74 68 65 |text, change the| 00000b20 20 66 6f 6e 74 2e 20 20 48 75 68 3f 20 20 48 61 | font. Huh? Ha| 00000b30 6c 66 20 74 68 65 20 77 6f 72 64 73 20 68 61 76 |lf the words hav| 00000b40 65 0d 63 68 61 6e 67 65 64 20 74 6f 20 65 78 70 |e.changed to exp| 00000b50 6c 65 74 69 76 65 73 2e 20 20 48 6d 6d 2c 20 79 |letives. Hmm, y| 00000b60 65 74 20 61 6e 6f 74 68 65 72 20 76 69 72 75 73 |et another virus| 00000b70 2e 20 20 4e 6f 77 20 6e 6f 2d 6f 6e 65 20 63 61 |. 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