3 Jun
1997
3 Jun
'97
12:26 a.m.
On Tue, 3 Jun 1997, Kevan Heydon wrote:
It does seem that wives/partners are quite
understanding of our hobby/
obsession. My wife, Michelle, has her moments of support when she has
got me some of the best machines in my collection, and other moments of
'you are not bringing another computer into this house.' The later is
usually broken when I bring home a really rare machine and I go on about
how good the design was or how bad it was and that it was only sold for
a short time. I find that the longer I leave the machine(s) temporarily
dumped on the sofa the worse things get, especially if friends come
around and there is nowhere to sit :-)
It is due to my fiancee that we have the TI-99 and the Atari ST
equipment, the former three (one still in shrink-wrap) because Lisa
credits a cassette-based algebra tutorial on her original TI-99/4A with
getting her through the maths requirement for her nursing degree, the
latter (a 1040 and a 520) because she's musically inclined and we got
them for their MIDI features. She's also the one that loves cute little
PDA-type devices, so we've got gear from HP, Casio, Sharp, Psion and one
or two others to be the classic in a decade or so. All of the Tandy and
AT&T and Sun equipment I take full responsibility for, as well as the
various non-classic Intel boxes for hacking Linux.
--
Ward Griffiths
"America is at that awkward stage. It's too late to work within
the system, but too early to shoot the bastards." --Claire Wolfe