Sucks, don't it? I have LDDT 2i, and they've given me until June to upgrade
mine. I can't afford the damn extortion, but it's better than buying three
new ones, I guess.

Jon E

"Rick Cox" wrote in message
gy.com...
Autocad....sigh.....
Speaking of money down the toilet....we have till the 15 to upgrade some
of
our 2000 seats or they will no longer be updateable....to me that is
extorsion.
I use Land Development Desktop and Civil packages which cost about $8000
for
a new seat...sigh...

"Don" wrote in message
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"Rick Cox" wrote in message
ink.net...
I am a long time wreck lurker. and a recent post by Jim Laumann "A
'puter
in the shop" got me thinking.

In 1994 when I purchased my first house I wanted to buy a RAS to help
with
some of the fix ups needed. My father who lived close by talked me
into
getting a tablesaw because he already had a ras and said it would be
nice
to
have both between us. So it was off to the local sears and I
purchased
a
contractors table saw. I purchased the saw for $449.00 and I could
not
believe that I spent that much on something I didn't event know how to
use.

About a year later, my wife and I decided to purchase our first
computer.
I
am a CAD tech and I did not want anything less than I was using at
work
at
the time.
So I went to the local computer shop and had one built to try to save
money.
I had to have that new HOTTT Pentium chip. I was really excited to
get
the
Pentium 90 that ran so hot it needed its own fan. I paid $150 bucks
extra
to double the RAM to 16 megs, and I got a huge 15" svga monitor.
Final
price for that computer was $2300 but man was I styling......AOL at a
whopping 14.bps ...... life doesn't get any better....


Now 2004, I have a used $449.00 craftsman table saw that I still
thoroughly
enjoy, and that $2300 computer is darkening some corner in a land fill
right
now..... what I wouldn't give to has that $2300 in tools now,
Funny what we are willing to spend money on.

Just this past week I finally kicked sniff my first 2 computers to the
curb to free up some real estate in the garage.
A Commodore VIC20 bought in 1984 and a clone 286/12 bought in 1988.
Paid $80 for the VIC at Toys R Us and had a loan for 3 years on the 286,
it
cost $3300.
My present machine (I use AutoCAD daily for my livelihood) cost 1/3 of
the
286.