29 Apr
2015
29 Apr
'15
12:56 p.m.
I wouldn't feel too bad about pitching it ... maybe 15 years ago ... I
think if you search on the Web, you can still find my post to classiccmp
about it ... I had just oodles of old DOS-compatible PCs ... 8088/8086/286
motherboards, boxes upon boxes of ISA cards of all types, floppy drives,
MFM/RLL hard drives ... probably at least 20 complete old systems ...
286/386/486 ... ISA/VLB; low-end MCA systems ... I just pitched the lot of
it ... I couldn't even give it away. In retrospect, I wish I would have
pulled some of the socketed ICs for my parts bin, but other than that, I
don't really miss any of it ... I get more excited by the workstations and
minis ... if I want an 8-bit computer, I can build one; it's more fun that
way, LOL ... so I got rid of all the old home computer stuff ... Commodore
64, Apple // and all the old DOS-compatible systems and focused on the
stuff I really cared about. Can't save it all.
Best,
Sean
On Wed, Apr 29, 2015 at 1:10 PM, Fred Cisin <cisin at xenosoft.com> wrote:
On Wed, 29 Apr 2015, Mike Stein wrote:
But then just a couple of weeks ago I was able to
help someone on here
out with a part that got his vintage LJ-IIp going again, so there is that
gratifying side of it, to be sure...
Yes, helping each other is what makes it all worthwhile.
Finally, I am pushing 70, so it's time to start making things a little
easier for my executors...
I sure know THAT feeling. I keep having to change my will as the folk
around me keep dropping.
Not only make a will, but make sure that the right people will have it in
a timely manner. When my best friend died, his will wasn't found for a
long time, by which time, a lot of stuff had been dumpstered, including his
LJIIP, and even his Leicas!
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com