4 Jun
2008
4 Jun
'08
7:46 p.m.
To be honest, I enjoy the checking prior to use just
as much as I do actually
using the system (I'm the same way with any vintage machinery - there's just
as much fun to be had in problem determination / fixing as there is in
actual use)
I'm inclined to agree with you. Quite often, once I've got a machine
working (it'll boot the OS, run standard applications, all peripherals
work, etc) i tend to lose interest in it and move on to some other
project (which might well be an add-on board or peripheral for said
machine, of course).
Tracking down a nastly logic fault is something I enjoy.
I don't really enjoy programming that much, and if I do want to write a
program, I suspect I've got better tools on this (ancient) PC than on
most of my classics...
-tony