On Thu, 15 Aug 2002, Cheryl Homiak wrote: > specs on my new toytool or tooltoy: > 256meg ram, 30gg. hard drive, cdrom, pentium III 1.13GHZ, ethernet and modem > (we'll see what works!), 3.5-inch floppy drive > and nearly $700 less than my over-the-phone quote. > some kind of windows on it too, of course, but I don't think I plan to keep that > on. > Probably two business days before shipping; can hardly wait! > There were some 48gb. hard drives, but the extra cost was over what I should be > spending and some of those had less memory. Cheryl, Don't just kill Winblows, take advanttage of the MS offer to give you a refund if you reject the license conditions. You'll probably need sighted help to do this, but they can't legally deny you, you might want to try the vendor first, being IBM, thety may help you as Linux is their main line of development these days - yes, they have stopped developing AIX in favour of Linux, which is why you shouldn't have a compatibility problem with IBM machines. HTH -- Toby Fisher Email: toby at g0ucu.freeserve.co.uk Tel.: +44(0)1480 417272 Mobile: +44(0)7974 363239 ICQ: #61744808 Please avoid sending me Word or PowerPoint attachments. See http://www.fsf.org/philosophy/no-word-attachments.html
