PLUG: OT: ADV:ETC - Good training for mouse-challenged *nix people

[Kenneth Brody]

Quoting Bill Campbell (Sun, 18 Dec 2005 22:35:13 -0800):
[...]
> Reading the rest of this e-mail reminded me that I learned Scripsit,
> Visicalc, and several other programs that Radio Shack sold 25 years ago
> from the audio tapes that came with the packages.  Perhaps Scripsit was
> less sophisticated (bloated) than the current crop of word processors,
> but it got the job done, and fit on a 640k 8in floppy with room to
> spare for reasonably large documents.  I found the audio tapes quite
> satisfactory.
[...]

I recently bought a new XP system from HP.

To save money, they no longer supply media, but rather have a separate
partition on the drive which holds the recovery data.  (The spin is
that "you can't lose it".)  They do, however, include software which
will allow you to burn your own media.  It took 4 DVDs!

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