3 Apr
2011
3 Apr
'11
11:45 a.m.
Then you are cetainly not exhibiting the "..I
have them all and you don't"
Well, I only very rarely sell anything, so in a sense once I've got it,
you don't :-)
syndrome. Sufferers of this malady never even open
the boxes up (much
less turn them on or fix them). But, they make sure you know that they
Ah, then I _certianly_ don't suffer from that. I am always inside some
machine or other. I've even dismanteld soem machins before I've even got
them home (I got my HP9180 at an HPCC meeting and dismantled it at the
meeting, I even started figuring out what was going on on some of the
PCBs).
Maybe I take 'fixing things' to ridiculour levels sometimes. Not
classic-computer related, but I don't think many people would dismantly a
Western Electric telephone dial, inclduing the riveted and staked parts
and then machine new parts for it. Not when you can buy a replacement for
a few 10s of dollars. But that's what I've been doing for the last couple
of afternoons. It's probably as pointless as mot hobbies, but I enjoy it
and it appears to harm nobody.
have all this stuff - somewhere... If they could only
find it.
Now that I can relate to, as can many others here... More often, though,
it's small parts I can't find, as it 'I know I've got a spare type
cylinder for an ASR33 somewhere, but where the heck did I put it'
-tony