10 Oct
2007
10 Oct
'07
4:48 p.m.
And you're right. Even those (and I include
myself here) who do run
their classics spend most the time working with a very small part of
their collection.
Well, FSVO "very small" and "working with".
At last count I had somewhere between 60 and 70 computers. Only a few
of them are off-topic here, and even them, only by the 10-year rule,
which has been repeatedly said by our listowner to be but a rough
guideline.
I currently have 15 of them up and running. That's between 1/4 and
1/5, which seems a little large to be "a very small part". However, I
could rarely be said to be "working with" more than about four of them
at any given time, and even that much only if you count things like the
router that's forwarding packets or the NFS sever the diskless machine
is using as being machines I'm "working with".
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