9 Feb
2010
9 Feb
'10
12:57 p.m.
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 3:53 PM, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
My parents, too. In high school (1982), I had a PDP-8/L and a PDP-8/i
in my room. Still have them. The fun part was wheeling the empty
H960 rack down the street when I moved into my first college
apartment.
Another
goldmine is the kid who gets tons of vintage gear from who knows
where and their parents make them get rid of it all after the house gets
overrun. I see that happen way too often in the mac croud.
?That's horribly disheartening. ?I'm glad my parents recognized the fact
that it'd be better for the house to be full of equipment that they didn't
recognize than have me out selling/doing drugs like everyone else in my
school.