• stuff for sale: Ulm ++++

    From ex-ibm-mca-user@21:1/5 to All on Tue Jan 30 13:33:51 2024
    Are you located in Germany!
    YES, you understood, but L.O. didn't, he assumed Delaware.
    Hmmmm.......
    Or did he try to dupe me??........
    Looks like........

    The city is ULM (140 km from Muenchen: in nearly the exact westerly
    direction).
    I'm interested to buy one of your 9595 servers.
    I had before a 8595 server but it went broken and I must recycle it.
    Tip: Keep a l l of the parts possibly usable in the future!!!
    I live in Finland and it was quite cheap to ship in EU from Germany to Finland by DHL or others.
    This surprises me!! Because the distance is quite 'horrible', isn't it? ------------------------
    I wonder how to pack one server (size & weight!) and to ship it via DHL
    to anywhere........
    Please also note: Most of my servers are NOT "up and running"! But one
    is (the formerly used one). It contains several HDDs plus several NT4-installations plus 2 CDroms plus 2 FDDs........

    As i indicated: I have such a lot of stuff 'whirling about', so to
    speak. Maybe it now is almost too late to sell it, hmm??........

    It would be best for those interested to lastly come by and load and
    take away their wanted stuff.

    Very unluckily the MCA-stuff cannot be used on the internet any more
    because the installable NT 4.6 doesn't provide a basis any more for the contemporary browsers!!!
    He who just wants to use relatively old office-software (up to 2k; but
    without DOCX etc) can use MCA & NT4.6 & old printers (e.g. LJ4 & LJ5).
    For regular internet-use, the MCA with winNT4 is nowadays useless
    because the there (NT4.x) usable browsers are unable to display all of
    today's things!!! (The development of HTML proceeds s i l e n t l y, no
    one informs you about this! The development proceeds in absolute
    secrecy!!!!!)

    Therefore, i repeat, be aware that using MCA-stuff makes sense only more
    when using relatively old office-software.

    For the internet, today win2k has turned useless because the browsers compatible wirh it are unapt/unable to display a l l of today's
    contents (--> permanent and silent (!!) extension of the HTML-norms)!

    Using email-programs that can run under NT4.6 are the last resort, BUT:
    These programs have to be able to implement all the 'stuff' that your email-provider 'demands'!!!

    In short: NT4.6 w% office 2k (without the ...x-stuff) will be
    usable---plus integrated drivers for old Laserjets like e.g. 4 and 5.

    If anyone absolutely needs .docx, he then absolutely needs win2k,
    because only for this OS an M$-update-file exists! (I have it, he who
    wants it can have it from me (file-name? not available to me
    immediately; would have to look).

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  • From Louis Ohland@21:1/5 to ex-ibm-mca-user on Tue Jan 30 07:56:03 2024
    As long as one does not have to use and abuse the current releases of
    apps that supposedly increase office productivity, then MCA does quite
    well. WfW 3.11, the last great OS, crash it so hard it bounces, boot
    with a floppy that has Edit on it, fix WIN.INI, and you are up again.

    Yes, WfW runs on top of DOS... don't be CPT Obvious...

    I foundt NT 4.0 SP6a to be dependable, but not as flexible as Win98SE.

    Ever notice that RTF documents from the early daze can be opened with a
    current app, but try opening a *.DOC from the early days. Word 2.0? Then
    Word 6.0, 97, 2003, usw... It is a worthy goal to switch to RTF in order
    to help future users...

    ex-ibm-mca-user wrote:
    Very unluckily the MCA-stuff cannot be used on the internet any more
    because the installable NT 4.6 doesn't provide a basis any more for the contemporary browsers!!!
    He who just wants to use relatively old office-software (up to 2k; but without DOCX etc) can use MCA & NT4.6 & old printers (e.g. LJ4 & LJ5).
    For regular internet-use, the MCA with winNT4 is nowadays useless
    because the there (NT4.x) usable browsers are unable to display all of today's things!!! (The development of HTML proceeds s i l e n t l y, no
    one informs you about this! The development proceeds in absolute secrecy!!!!!)

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