"Panzer240" wrote:

"Dwight Stewart" wrote:
I considered buying one of those types
of shortwave receivers before. However,
I changed my mind after weighing all the
possible long term implications. (snip)


I have a PCR-1000 here that will work on
everything from Win95 to WinXp + Linux/
Unix. At the very worst you can dedicate
on "older" computer to the setup and keep
it going indefinitely. There may be many
reasons to choose a different type of receiver,
but the chaning OS scene is certainly not one
of them. (snip)


Perhaps I'm just a little oversensitive to the idea because of all the
computer hardware and software that has become obsolete over the years -
millions and millions of tons of still working but obsolete computers,
printers, and peripherals, dumped into landfills throughout the country.

Stewart