6 Mar
2005
6 Mar
'05
1:25 p.m.
On Fri, 4 Mar 2005 23:56:12 GMT
Pete Turnbull <pete at dunnington.u-net.com> wrote:
On Mar 4 2005, 21:54, Jules Richardson wrote:
We sadly live in an era when people are considered 'technical' if they
can point the right end of a phillips screwdriver at a bunch of clone
parts and 'build their own' PeeCee.
I remember checking into the homebuild newsgroup, thinking maybe they
were wirewrapping TTL together or something cool.
On Fri, 2005-03-04 at 21:01 +0000, Pete Turnbull
wrote:
> On Mar 4 2005, 10:56, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
>
> > I think many don't realize the damage that can happen
> > when the group becomes a "Please fix my PC" group.
> > I watched this happen to a news group that had too many
> > people that tolerated such off topic post. From Jim's own
> > words, he thought that this was a general computer
> > group.> [ snip ]
>
> FWIW, I'm in complete agreement with Dwight, and well remember the
> newsgroup he means, having used it from 1994 until its eventual
demise.
> Actually, it's still there - but has
become an alt.fix.my.pc
group.
Not alt.comp.homebuilt? I think I looked there a while ago and gave
up
when I saw how many PC posts there were.
Actually it's alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt, and it started as a group
for people interested in building or modifying hardware in the sense
of using a soldering iron or perhaps VHDL, but gradually newbies
started appearing and asking about PCs they had "built" in the sense
of sticking their ISA cards on a new motherboard.