On Tue, 28 Nov 1995, Patiwat Panurach wrote:

I feel sad when they say that the market for <1000 $ machines is nill, I had so much fun and learned so much from my old machines.

Personally, I just bought a 486/66 laptop, which would have cost almost $1000 with 170 MB hard disk, 4 MB of RAM and Linux (I paid a couple of hundred extra for a 500 MB disk)... I could have got a Pentium desktop for the same price if I'd wanted one. So I don't see that there's really a great advantage to a $ 500 diskless computer (and having worked on Sun 3/50s in the past, I know about all the disadvantages). ObCrypto/Security: My landlord bought himself a computer a couple of weeks ago after he'd lived without them for over forty years, and has been enthusing about how easy it makes it for him to do his accounts. He just read about these diskless machines in a magazine, and his first reaction was that there was no way he'd keep his accounts information on a remote server. Obviously people *are* more privacy-aware than they're often given credit for. Mark