Ebay madness

Richard Erlacher skrev: As for me, I'm very interested in the aesthetic part of computing. I love my Goldstar HC-200 MSX, even though it's been absolutely smashed internally. After all, it's got such a colourful keyboard and a light pen holder. If it worked, it would be even more fun, but even as it is, I sometimes take it out and just admire it. I'm an accumulator in the sense that I take just about every computer I come across. OTOH, it's not a matter of keeping my old computer (though I still own each and every one I've bought), instead I keep lookout in Usenet, on the web, talk to people or go to the junkyard in order to make my collection grow. But the state of a system is secondary to the system itself. If it works and is cosmetically perfect, it's great, but even if not, who knows, one day I might run across a complementary system so that I might restore it. -- En ligne avec Thor 2.6a. It's amazing how many useful pieces of equipment are disguised as domestic appliances: the machine for cleaning keyboard keycaps and shell cases does an excellent job of washing clothes, while the tumbling machine for drying them off also works for socks and shirts. The device in the kitchen for baking small spray-painted articles can be used for pizza and muffins. And so on... Pete Turnbull