6 Oct
1999
6 Oct
'99
7:07 a.m.
On 02-Oct-99, Zane H. Healy wrote:
You passed up a "Moby Brick"?!?!
I sure did. :/
I had fantasies about making it the cutest Linux box on Earth, but I
didn't feel like dealing with the power supply problem.
It probably would have been easy, though. Likely it just used standard
PC voltages, and the power connector was a DB9 IIRC. Male.
It's not the first time I've left something behind and regretted it
later.
I've never even seen one, but remember seeing it in
PC Magazine about 8
or 9 years ago. That's one of the few PC's I'd consider adding to my
collection, just because it is such an odd-ball.
I've already descended to the level of PC collecting, but not with
anything as modern as the Moby Brick yet. :)
It's funny, the Moby Brick has more horsepower than any of my current
machines. Maybe I balked at getting something so modern. :)
The other one I would consider from this era is the one
that was built
into a keyboard.
I remember seeing that one in ads. IIRC, the ad stated that it was the
first personal computer in a keyboard-only design, which made me laugh.
I wish I could find the ad to verify that.
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