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["Ron Clarke" <ariadne AT earthlink.com.au>]

Hi Folks,

On Fri, 11 Mar 2005 12:23:14 +1300, 3aoo-cvfd AT dea.spamcon.org wrote:

> rvijay07 wrote:

>> With PCs becomming so cheap is there a need for
>> Projects like BL ?

> Cheap to you is not cheap to me.  486 laptops with
> 4mb still sell for $50 on our local auction.  My best
> laptop is such a machine (which I upgraded to 12mb by
> purchasing a $10 used memory module).  I use it for
> Powerpoint-type presentations using BL3 and MagicPoint.
> Is it useful?  Hell yes.  Without it, my submissions
> to the local council would have much less impact.
> My opponents have fancy Powerpoint laptops for their
> submissions.  Without my MagicPoint I would be at a
> severe disadvantage (unfortunately elected councillors
> are more impressed by colorful graphics than reasoned
> analysis).

    My ONLY laptop is a Toshiba Satellite '486 75 MHz with 16 MB RAM.
It cost me $10 Australian at a local flea market, without power lead and
with a battery that won't hold a charge. It came with a Roadster modem
without power supply (so useless).  

    But BL3 runs on it, too.     :)

> BL3 is useful to me.  I know of no other Linux that
> would make my laptop so useful.  So I make BL3 available
> to anyone who is in a similar position, who has a perfectly
> good 486 or early Pentium and would like to put a useful
> Linux on it.

   And your BL's of various denominations have turned me into a Linux
convert.

   "Useful" doesn't even come close !

Regards,
        Ron


Ron Clarke
AUSREG Consultancy        http://www.ausreg.com
Tadpole Tunes             http://tadpole.ausreg.com
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