I agree totally, John.  Many drinketh of the microsoft cool aid though. 
I've got lots of xp machine here that run just fine.  I even built up a 
dos machine a couple months ago.  I needed to sort a couple lists for my 
juke box last summer and I know of nothing in windows that works as 
slick as the good old dos  sort command.

73
Butch
WA0VJR
Node 3148
Wallace, ks.


On Sat, 12 Dec 2015, John Miller 
wrote:

> Oh come on, I have windows 2000 computers here, windows 98 and dos computers
> still going for programming older radio equipment and I've used one windows
> 2000 one for playing music at a party this past Halloween, I use them for
> demonstrations and what not where I don't want to put the newer ones at risk
> of walking off or a spill or something else happening to it. If it's only
> windows XP, it has a lot of life left in it. A lot of people think not so I
> collect them from people who want to give them away or let them go cheap and
> either use them myself, part them out, what ever. I recently was given a
> windows 7 laptop with display issues I'm very likely toing to make my radio
> computer since the radio computer has problems and I can't fix it.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Steve Dresser
> Sent: Saturday, December 12, 2015 12:10 PM
> To: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: Very Strange Issue With Windows XP Logging Computer
>
> Tom,
>
> I hate to tell you, but if you're still using an XP machine, you're living
> on borrowed time.  At the very least, you may have hard drive problems, and
> possibly something worse.  I wouldn't spend too much time trying to fix that
> machine - it's time to bite the bullet and get something newer.
>
> You might be able to removed the hard drive and connect it to another
> machine to salvage the data, but beyond that I wouldn't devote much time to
> that machine.
>
> Steve
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Tom Behler" <[log in to unmask]>
> To: <[log in to unmask]>
> Sent: December 12, 2015 10:36
> Subject: Very Strange Issue With Windows XP Logging Computer
>
>
>> Hello, everyone.
>>
>>
>>
>> I was getting ready to work some of the ARRL 10-meter contest this
>> morning,
>> and something very strange has happened to my old Windows XP logging
>> computer.
>>
>>
>>
>> I successfully installed and tested the updated N3FJP logging software for
>> the contest last night, but today, when I turn on my computer, I can't get
>> into any of the programs on the machine.  If I turn on the computer, I can
>> hear the hard drive start to engage, but after waiting for a few seconds,
>> nothing happens, other than a double beep which I'm sure  indicates
>> something. . Jaws will not come up, so I can't read the screen.  And, my
>> XYL
>> is not here to look at the screen.
>>
>>
>>
>> Has anyone experienced this sort of thing before, and if so, how do you
>> get
>> the computer back into normal operation?
>>
>>
>>
>> Tom Behler: KB8TYJ
>>
>>
>
>