Wanted: Old Hard Drive

suicidal_monkey · March 05, 2003, 12:40:26 AM

Anyone got any old hard drives that they dont want/need any more?

I'm setting up my old pc to be used for DTP, and it's only got a 2Gb hard drive in it. It'll probably run Win98 or WinXP and MS Word and I dont think 2 gigs will cut it anymore, especially not with XP...

Also, does anyone know if you can buy MSword by itself anymore? Best deal I've found is Â£90 for a MSworks package that includes MSword2002

smilodon · March 05, 2003, 12:44:14 AM

Sheepy's got all the hard-drives, he eats them !

You could try Open Office as a substitute for Word. It's just as good as MS Office and is free. I've used it in various forms for years. Saves files in word formt and has vector grahics, spreadsheetand presentation software as well.

sheepy · March 05, 2003, 12:08:44 PM

ive got an old couple but they dont work.

smilodon · March 05, 2003, 01:54:00 PM

They'll be useful then :wink:

suicidal_monkey · March 05, 2003, 06:17:17 PM

Got a few lines on HDD's now. One ancient 8Gb 5.25" drive that "is a bit dodgy" and one 4Gb drive which sounds perfect. I think I swapped my old 4Gb HDD out to give to a housemate who was struggling with only 2Gb :?

It really needs to be industry standard word processing software because it'll be for editing books and such, so a recent version of MS Word is the only way to go really. I've found one MSWorks package which includes MSWord2002 and its the cheapest so far at Â£90.

Alternatively, does anyone know a word processor program for linux that can open edit and save .doc files in PC-Word format?

smilodon · March 05, 2003, 07:23:15 PM

...er yeah it's called Open Office. Like I said it can open and save in standard windows formats in Windows or Linux versions.

Have a read here
http://www.openoffice.org/

Quote# The ability to import and export many different types of documents and templates in a huge range of formats from HTML to MS Office XP. You can work seamlessly with your colleagues, school or friends, no matter what computer you use. Although we think the OpenOffice.org Open File Formats are technically superior many people are still locked into other products so you can set OpenOffice.org to use any other file format by default if you wish.
# Runs natively on almost every modern operating system except Mac OS X.

ChimpBoy · March 05, 2003, 08:21:21 PM

Smiley - you and your anti microsoft policy.

You have to accept that some folks wanna spend a bit of cash on something thats "industry standard". Not everyone wants your back street software.

I bet it isnt a proper word processor either, with that cat as an assistant to help me with my typing ! It purrs when I get whole sentences rihgt :lol:

God bless uncle Bill and his wonderful software company

smilodon · March 05, 2003, 09:33:55 PM

Whatever

Gh0st Face Killah · March 05, 2003, 10:36:40 PM

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God bless uncle Bill and his wonderful software company

[shudders] eeeewwwww[/shudders]

sheepy · March 05, 2003, 10:50:19 PM

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God bless uncle Bill and his wonderful software company

u really need to b shot

suicidal_monkey · March 06, 2003, 01:05:32 AM

/me re-reads smiley's first post again...
ahhhh... brain in slow-mode.

ta
Might be a plan, but whether or not my mum'd accept the idea...

anyone ever re-partitioned a mac hard drive and put linux on it? :S

smilodon · March 06, 2003, 01:25:13 AM

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God bless uncle Bill and his wonderful software company

u really need to b shot[/b]

Sheepy......you've hit the nail so very square on the head.

DogMeat · March 06, 2003, 12:06:04 PM

QuoteSmiley - you and your anti microsoft policy.

You have to accept that some folks wanna spend a bit of cash on something thats "industry standard". Not everyone wants your back street software.

I bet it isnt a proper word processor either, with that cat as an assistant to help me with my typing ! It purrs when I get whole sentences rihgt :lol:

God bless uncle Bill and his wonderful software company

It's developed from Sun's StarOffice. Sun just kicked micro$lop's arses round the courtroom over them breaking the Java agreement. Hardly a "back street" operation...

Still, people who rely on animated cats to help them write whole sentences are M$'s target audience...

smilodon · March 06, 2003, 04:55:53 PM

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I bet it isnt a proper word processor either, with that cat as an assistant to help me with my typing ! It purrs when I get whole sentences rihgt :lol:

Didn't purr for that one did it!

And that backstreet software developer must have been working in a hell of a lot of backstreets to turn over $12.5 billion last year

ChimpBoy · March 06, 2003, 05:54:14 PM

It was intentional Smiley - I thought englishmen understood irony without the need for it to be thrust in their face. Oh dear. Do I really have to put (that was intentional) at the end every time. :roll:

Sorry to hijack, but without Microsoft there is no PC industry, because no one wants to go back to the days of DOS.

Yes it's easy to poke fun and ridicule MS for their policies in comparison to newer companies like Sun but without Windows 3.1 the market would never have taken off like it did, or get the investment it did. We might all be using Apple Macs now 8O

I'm sure you'll post some snidey comebacks, but deep down you know I'm right. Shame on you if you can't admit it :roll: