XPost: alt.home.repair, alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.os.windows-11   
   From: NONONOmisc07@fmguy.com   
      
   In alt.home.repair, on Wed, 24 Jan 2024 12:28:52 -0500, Big Al   
    wrote:   
      
   >On 1/24/24 11:19 AM, micky wrote:   
   >> People laughed at me when I said I wanted a desktop and a laptop with a   
   >> DVD drive.  No one uses those anymore, they taunted me.   
   >>   
   >> Well, I was visiting my brother and sil, and good friends of theirs had   
   >> given them a telescope.  They live on the 17th floor of an 18 story   
   >> building, on a corner apt with a balcony.   
   >>   
   >> And they are complicated. Setup especially. And guess what, included in   
   >> the box was a DVD.  Their computers would not play it but mine could. So   
   >> there.   
   >>   
   >> It turns out, the telescope is still for sale new, a couple hundred   
   >> dollars iirc, but the file dates on all the DVD files was from 2008.   
   >>   
   >> It included weblinks to the manufacturer, for warranty registration etc.   
   >> and none of the links still worked, It also included the user manual in   
   >> PDF, which is good because one of their new dogs** ate up part of the   
   >> paper manual.   I sent the pdf to each of their email accounts, though   
   >> afaict neither reads his or her email. But if they complain later, I'll   
   >> send another copy.  LOL   
   >>   
   >> **The dogs are maltepoos.  Combination of a poodle with a malted milk.   
   >And a usb plug in drive would also work on all systems including the   
   >above people you visited.   
   >You could even make an ISO from it and give them the ISO they could   
   >mount and run without a DVD.   
      
   And with either method, how would you read the DVD to make the USB drive   
   or the ISO?   Just blow on it and wish it?   
      
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