From: noJimspam@omitThisHarganonline.com   
      
   On Thu, 26 Jul 2007 18:49:56 -0000, pdox42 wrote:   
      
   > for those "late to the party" the idea of upgrading is near verboten   
   > for us.  we are *trying* and this thread has been a lot of help!!!   
      
   Since you are running several 486s (IIRC), upgrading will probably be   
   forced upon you sometime in the near future. No machine with moving parts   
   can last forever. Ten years for a computer is nearly impossible; your's are   
   probably 12 years old already.   
      
   Buy new no-OS boxes now to replace your 486s, and your problems are   
   manageable. For instance, you can transfer your data to your new hard   
   drives via the network -- once you manage to find a way of hooking your 10   
   Base 2 486s to the new boxes. The idea is to simply move your existing DOS   
   system onto new hardware.   
      
   Because, when you make an emergency transition from old boxes to new boxes,   
   the entire office will be shut down and everyone will be putting the   
   pressure on *you* to bring it back up again. And that's when you'll   
   discover that you can't install the hard drive from your 486 into your new   
   computer. The interface is wrong, and adapters disappeared many years ago.   
   In fact, *nothing* from your old machine will work on a new box, except the   
   floppy drive. All the plugs have changed; all the slots have changed. Once   
   your 486s die, their data die with them.   
      
   Best to start now, while you can plan it all systematically.   
      
      
   Jim Hargan   
      
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