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John Beardmore <wookie@wookie.demon.co.uk> wrote:

>>> 4) Should I trade them both for one Pentium.

>Depends what you want to do.

>If you have a couple of typists stuffing data into word I guess they are
>fine.  The longer you can use them the better the return on your investment !
>The sooner you upgrade, the worse the return on your investment !

>If you take mid week breaks while doing floating point nuclear physics
>caluculations, a decent pentium will probably be worth much more to you
>than both of them in their upgraded state put together !  In this case,
>how much do you want to invest in saving your time ?  What is your time
>worth ?

>If we looked at what our time was worth, some of us would still be using
>twin floppy CPM boxes for basic office work !

>Maybe I'll being my CPM box out of retirement, hook it up to the laser
>printer and use it for invoicing. That should have some inverse snob value.

Yes, but I bet the pound sign would come out as a hash :)
We came across this problem in the office recently, when we connected
an ancient 286 to a Laserjet 4+