I curse this
day --> Back in college (many years ago, about 1983, before I
got into collecting), I went to the apartment of a fellow compsci major to
quell some beer. In the middle of his living room was a complete IBM system
3, in perfectly mint condition. He told me I could have it if I could get it
out of there. Idiot me said "You gotta be kidding - no thanks". *SIGH*
This seems to be a good test to see if you are an official old-timer in
the computer collecting hobby - passing up a free machine that today
people would kill for.
I have been there, many times (IBM, Amdahl, DG). How about others?
Oh, you mean like the day I passed on picking up all the Sun 2/120 systems...
To my credit, I was more interested in the Sun 1/100U's, but letting the
1's blind me to the 2's was just plain dumb.
-Lawrence LeMay