[Elecraft] Subject: Computers In The Shack

[Phil Wheeler]

Five in total (Two Macs, three PCs). The Macs both 
will boot OS X, Win 7 or Ubuntu Linux -- one will 
even boot two versions of OS X at any time, one 
working and one beta.

One Mac in the house (MacBook Air) and one PC 
(long-in-the-tooth, circa 2008, Dell running Win 
7). One Mac in the shack (MacBook Pro), one tiny 
10.1" HP notebook running Win 8.1 (used mostly for 
PSK31 and such) and one newer Dell PC in the shack 
running Win 7.

The two desktop Dell PCs are prized for their fast 
optical drives (Blu-Ray in one) so I can rip and 
burn optical disks; the two Macs have only slow 
usb optical drives.

Even with three computers in the shack I seem to 
still be "old school" ala Don Wilhelm :-)

73, Phil W7OX

On 3/11/15 11:12 AM, Edward R Cole wrote:
> Hmm, another survey?
>
> I have had up to four computers in the shack, 
> but run two (mainly).  I Dell duo-core P4 2.33G 
> with 2GB memory XP32 which is always connected 
> to the K3 serial port and does all the digital 
> mode work.  I Dell Inspiron with win8.1 always 
> connected to the SDR-IQ but gets very irregular 
> use.  I have an old P90 win95 IBM thinkpad for 
> running an old packet program or a CW key 
> program (but not getting much use these days - 
> Keep for any legacy DOS sw).
>
> At some point we will disconnect the duo-core P4 
> from the internet and e-mail will go to the 
> win8.1 machine (Hopefully win10 will be with us 
> by then).  I will have to get fm downloads from 
> the laptop at that point.
>
> Or maybe by then we will replace the laptop 
> (2009 purchase).  My wife bought a new Dell with 
> win7 this past year and is chomping for a new 
> desktop (her's is same genre as my desktop which 
> she never uses).  I told her to wait till win10 
> is available.  She also has a ipad-3 which is in 
> constant use.  I have no idea why she needs a 
> desktop.
>
> 73, Ed - KL7UW
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