10 Oct
2007
10 Oct
'07
11:33 a.m.
On Oct 10, 2007, at 1:41 PM, William Donzelli wrote:
I'll take that cue. I regularly use the PDP-8/m that lives on my
desk, as well as my Kaypro 10 (though its hard drive died last week,
sob). I don't use much of my other stuff lately due to thermal
restrictions, but that's easing off now.
-Dave
--
Dave McGuire
Port Charlotte, FL
Farewell Ophelia, 9/22/1991 - 7/25/2007
My point is
that if you listened to every dire warning on this list,
you'd never plug anything in and use it.
Warnings about this and that are tossed out regularly on this list,
along with the immediate counter-opinion that those warnings are
exaggerations that you needn't concern yourself with.
You are getting dangerously close to one of the great revelations of
collecting life:
Most collectors do not do anything with their collections.
Nearly all of us are on this constant drive to get new items, chase
them down, acquire them - then put them in the pile. 5 percent of the
pile gets used and played with 95 percent of the time. The dire
warnings are mostly as solid as a souffle.
Cue the usual suspects to rebut.