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From: dlou@thor.ucsd.edu (Dennis Lou)
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Subject: Got a 386, now what?
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Okay, I got a 386DX PC/AT running at 20Mhz with 2 megs of ram and a
100 meg hard disk, SVGA, SoundBlaster, modem, etc.  I also might have a
laser printer in the near future.

Well, this stuff cost mucho dinero for a poor college student like me
and it's also depreciating very very quickly.  I was going to use it
for a consulting enterprise, but I don't know if what I was thinking
of can/will go through.

How can I use this thing to make it pay for itself?

Does anyone out there have any tips/info on starting a
word processing/desktop publishing enterprise?  How about contract
programming?  Shareware markets, what's hot and what's not?
(I know C, C++, Pascal, LISP, FORTRAN, BASIC and Assembly) 
Computer rental?  Data entry (e.g. mailing lists, I know where I
can get a scanner and OCR really cheap)?  BBS?  (It'll probably cost
more to run a BBS for a year than the system is worth! :-)

E-mail me here.  Thanks!

-- 
Dennis Lou                Disclaimer: I don't use lame disks.
dlou@dino.ucsd.edu         "But Yossarian, what if everyone thought that way?"
[backbone]!ucsd!dino!dlou  "Then I'd be crazy to think any other way!"