23 Mar
2011
23 Mar
'11
1:05 p.m.
However, I give myself credit for at least attempting
a repair. My main aim
And so you should!.
I am quite sure you will feel the urge sometime to come back to this and
have another go. And I'll hopefully be around when you do :-).
in this hobby is to have working units to display to
others, talk about and
play with when I want to. It's the design and historical elements I'm
No that I can understand. It's become something of a tradition at HPCC
for me to drag along a slightly off-topic machine (desktop, not handheld,
but sitll an HP devive) once a year, demonstrate it, adn take it to bits.
You have doubtless seen the photos..
interested in, and tinkering with the hardware is a
(usually unavoidable)
means to an end.
And that is where we differ. To me, tinkering with the hardware is the
reason I collect classic computers. They;re less interesting to me when
they work properly.
Fortunately, there's 'room' in theis hobby for all sorts :-)
-tony