[Elecraft] Re: Elecraft Digest, Vol 40, Issue 11- K2 - iMic for Digital Modes

[Julian G4ILO]

On 8/9/07, Phil Kane <k2asp at kanafi.org> wrote:
>
>   The obvious one - it's a legitimate copy installed on an
>   existing secondary machine that I use for my other hamming
>   stuff - packet and APRS.

Quite right. I have a 9 year old Dell running Windows 98 which still
runs 12 hours a day receiving and decoding APT weather satellite
images and uploading them to my website. I don't give a damn about the
security holes or that Microsoft no longer supports it - it's the
other side of a firewall and I don't use it for web surfing anyway.

I could do 100% of what I need for radio, and most of everything else,
under Windows 98. (Being in the software and support biz I need to be
familiar with XP and Vista but there is little I actually use the
computer for that really needs XP, and I loathe Vista.)

A computer mag here has just written about how much power people could
save using the power management settings of their PC. I think we could
save far more if we weren't forced to use ever more bloated software
demanding ever more powerful PCs (and then we'd save ourselves the
problem of how to dispose of those perfectly functional but out of
date computers without contributing to another environmental
disaster.)

-- 
Julian, G4ILO K2 s/n: 392  K3 s/n: ???
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