On Wed, 2006-01-25 at 13:23, Mike McCarty wrote: > > > > That's the first time I've seen the words floppy and > > ideal in the same sentence in this century, I think. > > You do use charged terms, as this century isn't very > old. You make it sound like it's been 50 years. Well, ethernet was invented in 1973... > > > > I suppose a computer without a network might still have > > some use but I can't think of it offhand. Is it working > > for you or are you working for it when you hand-carry > > the data over? > > Umm, contract work developing software for pharmacies until > recently (last August). I don't have *any* computers connected > to a "network", unless you consider my ADSL modem a network > connection. Certainly I have no "shares" at all. That just seems like an odd choice for someone with multiple computers. I remember doing networking with DOS boxes in the late 80's/early 90's with unix systems and something that worked like samba. I thought you could download the dos side of that from somewhere and it should work with samba now. -- Les Mikesell lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
