Disklavier

I absolutely agree. The Dells have another "good feature". From a full 
format you do not have to activate WIN XP if you use a Dell XP disk. Saves a 
lot of time.
I have just recently disposed of a bunch of the GX270-280s when the local 
Comm. Col. had an auction. The working ones went for $5.00 - $10.00 and the 
ones that had "bad" mother boards went for a buck.
I think I changed the caps. on about 12 motherboards.
Sold them at a big savings for the local folks as well as upgrading my shop 
:-)

Frank & Gean Evans
www.hfevans.com
www.mcatos.org
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Spencer_Lists" <lists@...>
To: "Frank & Gean Evans" <disklavier@yahoogroups.com>
Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 8:07 PM
Subject: Re: [disklavier] Disc Copying - and Obsolete Technology


> Greetings Frank,
>
> I also have a number of "legacy" applications that need to be run in
> XP. I have found what I think is an ideal computer for this and have
> about 4 of them. Dell makes a line of computers called Optiplex. They
> are very common as POP computers and as little distributed
> workstations often networked to a server in places like doctor's
> offices. They are made to be simple small and reliable. Most fit the
> "SFF" (small form factor) size range. New ones cost quite a bit but
> the are regularly available as "refurbished". The really neat thing
> about these computers is that you can get the best of older and newer
> computers together in one small package for very little money. My most
> recent one has a CRRW DVD combo drive, 8 USB 2 ports, PS2 keyboard
> connector, 3 GHZ Pentium 4 512 G memory (ubgradable to quite a bit
> more) a worthless 40 gig hard drive which I replaced with an old 320.
> This computer has serial ATA so a good source for cheap replacement
> drives is to get a (now) small external hard drive for close to
> nothing. Almost all Optiplex computers older than the newest ones,
> have floppy drives. This last little computer cost me $139 not
> including the upgrade to a larger drive. It came with Win XP proSP3
> for refurbished computers and even has an installation disc. This
> computer will never be connected to the internet so updates are not
> necessary but they can be gotten for as long as microsoft supports XP
> which will probably be for a few more years.
>
> Sunday, January 31, 2010, 5:25:31 PM, you wrote: >
>> Your last sentience says it all.
>> I have always and will always keep an older system running WIN-ME
>> with a bare minimum of utilities. It has 1 CDRW and one DVDRW as
>> well as a 3 1/2 inch floppy drive.
>> As time goes on you will find there are a lot of things that the
>> latest and greatest will not (allow) you to do.
>> With ME you can always drop to DOS as well.
>> All this costs now is a little space as the "resale value" of a system 
>> that old is $0.00
>> Kindest regards
>> Frank
>> Frank & Gean Evans
>> www.hfevans.com
>> www.mcatos.org
>> ----- Original Message ----- 
>> From: kenmortgages
>> To: disklavier@yahoogroups.com
>> Sent: Sunday, January 31, 2010 6:08 PM
>> Subject: [disklavier] Disc Copying - and Obsolete Technology
>
>>
>
>> Morning all
>
>> I thought I'd post this warning about new technology as I spent
>> hours yesterday searching for the answer. Last week I took posession
>> of a few more PianoSoft Plus disks from the US. I never use original
>> disks - always a copy and mostly from the hard drive attached to the 
>> Disklavier, using YAMPlayer.
>
>> The problem - I have recently upgraded my workhorse desktop and no
>> longer have a floppy drive inbuilt; I use a USB floppy which I
>> transfer from PC to Notebook etc. To my horror I found that whilst I
>> could boot from a DOS disk and load dkvcopy from the USB floppy, the
>> program wouldn't recognise the PianoSoft disk in the floppy drive.
>> Looking on Carol's website I came across a few other programs -
>> riparoot for DOS and rootaripper for XP from the command window.
>> Neither program worked with the USB floppy.
>
>> Solution - in a friend's office this morning, I used his old XP
>> with in-built floppy drive - and low and behold, immediate sucess
>> with all of the above programs! I appears that the USB drive is not
>> recognised by the operating system even though I can boot from that
>> drive, copy files and so forth. This is quite a worrying thing as
>> most notebooks from about 2000 onwards don't have an inbuilt floppy
>> drive, and most desktop motherboards don't contain a IDE output for
>> floppy drives any more (note that to drive a floppy the IDE output
>> is 32 pins, and IDE hard drives have 40 pin sockets - which are
>> often present beside SATA sockets).
>
>> You may not need to copy/backup PianoSoft files very often but be
>> warned you need a floppy drive which runs directly off the
>> motherboard. I'll put in some more research but I don't think there
>> is a simple answer - other than keeping an old legacy sytem.
>
>> Cheers
>> Ken
>
>>
>
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