11 Sep
1998
11 Sep
'98
3:04 p.m.
David Williams wrote:
Arg, destroyed an Enterprise? That's one I've
always wanted to see
but since the company had a short life in Europe only I don't
expect I will. Back before I really started collecting, someone
broken in and tried to take my AT&T 6300. The cables were all
screwed into the back around the sides of the desk's hutch. Since
they were in a hurry they just tried to pick it up and run. The
cables snapped so they left it. Took a friend's PC and left my
Amiga 500. Guess they thought it was just a spare keyboard or
something. Had some other systems but those were all that were
in the house at the time.
My apartment was burglarized back in the early 80s. Missing was a
32k TRS-80 Color Computer with disk drive and Line Printer 8 and a
Tandyvision One (the relabeled Mattel Intellivision), that latter
bought the previous day on closeout ($25 less 10% employee discount).
The place was trashed somewhat, and they ignored a couple thousand
bucks worth of semi-precious stones and an amber necklace that my
ex-wife had from her grandmother that would easily pawn a K.
It was the day that the first copy of OS-9 arrived at the Radio
Shack Computer Center where I did tech support. I went home with
every intent of finally breaking the seal to see if it would go
live with 64k. It was not a good day.
My subscription copy of 80-Micro was on the couch. Neither my ex-
wife nor I had brought it in. This was in the peak years, when it
wouldn't fit into an apartment house mail niche and instead went
into the trough underneath the mailboxes. The best assumption is
that a couple of kids came through, noticed the magazine, thought
"maybe this guy's got a computer, let's go look". The cop who
took the report demonstrated how easy it was to open our type of
patio door.
--
Ward Griffiths <mailto:gram@cnct.com> <http://www.cnct.com/home/gram/>
When I was crossing the border into Canada, they asked me if I had any
firearms with me. I said "Well, what do you need?" -- Steven Wright