16 Nov
1997
16 Nov
'97
5:37 a.m.
James Willing wrote:
You know, I always hate these moral dilemmas...
In the last few days the collection received an AT&T UNIX PC (aka 7300,
3b1) in extremely good condition. It arrived with all of the original
docs, software, and mouse. The docs were unwrapped , and the mouse was in
its original foam packing. "Kind of nice when someone packs things away
properly" I thought.
And so, the dilemma... do I open the disks and crank
this critter up? Or
just pack it all away as another classic 'artifact'? (or leave it until I
have a fair amount of time to spend with it)
Wow, I wish we all had that type of problem :). My particular solution
would be to try and run diagnostics to make sure the machine ran (if I found
the time to do it) and just pack it away. One thing I do worry about is the
power supply filter caps going bad. I am thinking that for my collection,
powering up the machines periodically would be a good thing to maybe prevent
such problems.