24 Jan
2012
24 Jan
'12
6:07 a.m.
Dave McGuire wrote:
On Jan 23, 2012, at 9:22 PM, David Riley
<fraveydank at gmail.com> wrote:
:-) I had it again yesterday with a "very old" computer where the only
other detail from person who had it was that it said 'Sigma' on it. Of
course I wasn't expecting there to be an intact SDS machine lurking around
here, particularly when they offered to meet me in town with it (bringing a
truck, are we?), but it was still sensible to chase things to their
conclusion just on the very slim chance that it was a small part of an SDS
system, which would still be worth saving from the dump.
I've since managed to get a photo from them - it's (you've guessed it) an
x86 clone PC, maybe 15 years old at the most...
cheers
Jules
On Jan 23, 2012, at 9:12 PM, Evan Koblentz
wrote:
Saying it is easy. Getting people to believe it is another
thing.
"But... but it's running, like, Windows 95. Isn't that vintage?
Seems like your sort of thing."
I've run into that. I deal with it by whipping out my phone and showing
the offending party a picture of something serious; my PDP-11/70 usually
works well. Hmm, have
people on here ever found a *sensible* way of defining
our interests such that it's obvious we're *not* interested in
that x86 clone PC running Windows that you bought in 2002 and have
just unearthed in your garage?
Yes. Just say, "No PC clones running
Windows."
How hard is that?