13 Jan
2010
13 Jan
'10
9:31 p.m.
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Yeah really! PERSPECTIVE is very important in a hobby like ours. I've
seen people get divorced over technical collections; I know one person
who committed suicide (he was a slide rule collector -- it ate up his
home and caused endless tension with his wife.)
How far would I go for an extremely rare / old / valuable computer?
Pretty far, but not if it would bankrupt me, cause me to lose my job, or
cost me a spouse .... and certainly not if it required major bodily harm!!!
Hopefully the previous responder was only joking.
lucky, he only
lost one arm. It is better to see a nice piece of
equipment smashed than be smashed under it which is something I always
try to remember.
I am not at all convincced about that.