[Ham-Computers] Wanting to borrow...

[Ron Youvan]

   Kurt KD7JYK DM09 wrote:

> : Don't run XP here any longer, but it seems to me that if you already
> : have XP on the machine that you should be able to download the SP3
> : directly from MS by using Windows Update (that's how I did it in the
> past).

> Hoping for a disk, so when I re-install XP thirty years from now on a stand
> alone computer 700 miles form the nearest phone line I can have all the
> updates as well!

> In the meantime, I am on 30-40K dial-up and don't have the hours or data-rate
> from my ISP to download even 10% of what's on the average CD.  32 fiber optic
> trunks 3/4 mile away and high-speed in only a few cities in the entire state.

   When I was on dial up, I would start the download and go eat and do other things,
when I was finished I either had a download or an abortion.
   When I had time I would commit it to a CD-R and label it.
-- 
    Ron  KA4INM - Did you know ...
                  ... that no-one ever reads these things?