Date   : Wed, 28 Nov 2001 09:22:22 -0000
From   : Daniel Luton <DLuton@...>
Subject: Re: BEEB Stuff

That's silly - to say that you would rather use the Beeb to browse the
web
instead of a PC/Mac is ludicrous.  I can understand it for fun, but
it's not
exactly a serious replacement for IE/Netscape now, is it? :))
 
P.S.  If you use AOL as a service provider, it's no wonder you've got
such
jaded views on PC internet access.

-----Original Message-----
From: MJBramham@... [mailto:MJBramham@...]
Sent: 27 November 2001 23:54
To: bbc-micro@...
Subject: Re: [BBC-Micro] Re: BEEB Stuff


To begin with, I know about PCs and it was my interest in computing
that led
me to the BEEB, and I know that my 6 year old computer is too old to be
fixed and updated without an awful lot of hard work on my own part.  I
also
know that it would cost me upwards of £1000 to get a decent setup
that
included all of the peripheral hardware I rely on so much.  So when I
think
that I can purchase a BBC that will not have these problems, and will
not
suffer the gradual degradation that is accepted as commonplace in the
modern
PC, when I know that the addition of a decent printer will give me near
PC
quality wordprocessing, with fast access and no stupid problems/office
assistant, and when I know that all of this will cost me in the region
of
£100 with no maintainence cost whatsoever, I'm afraid that there is
no
contest. 

I do not judge the quality of the service I am getting from a piece of
equipment by where it figures in the evolutionary scale of things. 
Just
because it is new, doesn't mean it is better by default. 

Connect it to the web, I say. 

Marc.  Powered by AOL at 0.1bps, grass grows faster.