In summary...

So. 75 new mails in the cctalk folder since I checked my mail this morning: - Sometimes people on eBay are not honest. Sometimes people overreact to this. Sometimes people overreact to the overreaction. - Your college degree doesn't mean much. Or it means something. Maybe. Regardless, a BS is a foot in the door / waste of time / stupid requirement / very useful / a floor wax / a dessert topping / a communist plot. (Choose only 2.) - Sometimes hiring practices are suboptimal or unfair. Especially in the corporate world. This is because HR departments are full of stupid-heads who refuse to acknowledge your greatness. - No one intelligent (er, "truly hard core") uses or buys Microsoft products, EVER. (EVER!) - Mail readers exist. Some are better than others, possibly. Sometimes you can even use them to do stupid things! - Nothing made in the last 30 years has improved Tony's life one iota. (Not even self-adhesive stamps?! But they're so handy!) - Hey, did you hear that HR people / managers are stupid? - Thunderbird sucks / no it's ok! - Some people have axes to grind with other people. - Did you know that if you replace "soft" with "shit" in the name of a certain large software company, it makes people take you seriously? (It's true!) - Some nonsense about some old HP computer thing. What the hell is *that* discussion doing here? Can we... maybe discuss old computers again? Pleeeeeeeze? Here, I'll start: Anyone know if the original TRS-80 Model I power brick suffers from the same failure modes as those old C64/VIC-20 power bricks? Any repair options? I've got an old one that seems to be working OK for now, just wondering if it'll stay that way... - Josh