[Boatanchors] Old Antenna Model Program

[Bill Henderson]

ABSOLUTELY AGREED !

I ran into this recently with my camcorder and firewire.

The (relatively) new laptop (two yrs old) doesn't have a firewire port.

Nor is there a port to add one of the adapter cards that used to be common.

So, I kept the old desktop tower (Win XP) and it is now showing signs of
failure.

I suppose I could buy an older laptop with a built in firewire port, or a
new camcorder (and repeat the cycle when the ports "de jour" change again).

Or digitize the the composite video/audio out.

Same feelings on SDR as you - at least my boatanchors (for the most part)
are still repairable and useful.

73 de CF3HWA / Bill H.



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On Sat, Feb 4, 2017 at 1:36 PM, Rob Atkinson <ranchorobbo at gmail.com> wrote:

>
>
>
> I'm ahead of you--I hate computers.  If you have any software you
> love, you have to keep a machine that runs on it alive.  The computer
> industry has perfected the art of planned obsolescence.   If the old
> machine craps out, bye bye whatever it was you used to run.  This is
> why I refuse to jump on the SDR bandwagon (one reason).
>
> 73
>
> Rob
> K5UJ
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