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computer or not?
I thought I'd have left on my cruise by now but am still finishing my
nesting dinghy so while that is happening, I am wondering about taking a computer. Is a computer really desireable on a cruise? I like to do weird calculations with spreadsheets and work out bizaare optics for fun and profit. Supposedly you can watch a movie on a computer although I have never done so and am almost unable to watch movies but a cruise on a sailboat has a lot of free time...I would never trust my navigation to computer charts so that isnt a reason. Is being in touch via e-mail and news groups really desireable or even practical? At work, we have a plethora of new computers but all are too big and run on 110 volts. My electrical capacity will be limited to when the engine is running, whatever charge is in my 2 batteries, and whatever my 10 watt solar panel makes. This argues for a laptop. My last experience with a laptop had me trying to get it stolen in airports but nobody ever took it. Even though it had a damned crappy power supply, I kept it going far longer than I should have by open-chassis surgery and soldering iron. When it finally did die, I gleefully extracted its hard drive and installed it in an adapter for my current home computer so that every time I see it I imagine it as a brain in a jar and I have gotten my revenge. I can almost imagine it saying "Dave, I know we have had our problems but.....Daisy, Daisy...." So, what do y'all think? Is there any practical way to do e-mail while underway? Should I just go back to using my slide rule for calculations? |
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