gvreugdenhil@violet.waterloo.edu (Gord V...) (04/11/89)
If any of you are bored ( :-) ) and need something to do, I could
use a bit of advice....
I am looking for the following:
1) very reliable hard drive, 60 - 80Mb Priam, Maxstor, Micropolis??
2) external tape backup - must be able to do incrementals
and be virtually foolproof. Mountain??
3) High quality dot-matrix printer; speed is less an issue
than print quality. Can't afford laser, sigh...
4) Good keyboard - Northgate?? (I know - very subjective, but
a few suggestions of ones to check out would help... )
The above will be used in either a PC or AT (not true blue; an as yet
to be determined clone.) The person using the machine will be my father's
secretary (she is not used to working on computers, so the easier the better
(esp. for backups). The machine will have mostly very static data -
entered once, referenced in decreasing frequency with time. Some of
the data (policy books, etc) will be subject to once-a-year revision,
but most will very rarely change.
Speed of operation is not highly critical. Very little work will be done
in database/spreadsheet applications, most of the time will be with
data entry and wordprocessing. Most of the database work is for archival
purposes only.
If possible, model numbers and approximate prices would be appreciated.
The budget is somewhat limited, so "x is pretty good & cheap" comments
would also be useful.
Please email responses as I do not have time to keep up with all the
traffic in the group.
Thanks in advance for your help.
Gord Vreugdenhil
gvreugdenhil@violet.waterloo.edu