23 Jan
2002
23 Jan
'02
9:47 a.m.
Well t hen you're the macho dweeb programmer type :-)
-----Original Message-----
From: owner-classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
[mailto:owner-classiccmp@classiccmp.org]On Behalf Of Pat Finnegan
Sent: Wednesday, January 23, 2002 1:11 PM
To: classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org
Subject: RE: OT? Yahoo Free Listing Day
On Wed, 23 Jan 2002, Russ Blakeman wrote:
It is pretty weird to have computer nerds talking
about tractors, like
Eddie
Arnold on Green Acres I'd say. I believe
that's the reason most of us can
keep the old computer iron going as we're not the underweight skinny
dweebs
that know programming but when machine is older they
throw it out. It
takes
someone diverse in mechanics, electronics, shop
trades, etc to kep this
old
stuff going, just like you need to keep an old machine
going (truck, car,
tractor, etc).
HEY! I am one of those underweight skinny dweeb programmers! Of course I
have some 'classic computer sensibilities' (or to the rest of the world,
'problems' or 'insanity' :)
-- Pat