22 Jul
1997
22 Jul
'97
4:02 p.m.
On Tue, 22 Jul 1997 19:03:32 -0700 (PDT), Mr. Ismail was rumoured
to have remarked:
[...] Tim was complaining that nobody wanted the
stuff, but the fact
is, who wants to spend hundreds of dollars in shipping or
transportation charges?
Offhand, and I may offend a few sensibilities here, that folks who
care for computing's history should be willing to bear such short-
term inconveniences as medium-sized monetary expenditures. If you
don't save a machine, it might be the _last_one_! (The odds of this
happening in the near term with micros is vanishingly small.)
[...] that's all fine and dandy if you're a
bachelor or your wife
could care less what kind of crap you drag into the house. [...]
She has problem enough with the garage full of crap.
Oddly enough, Diana and I have been together now for the better
part of a decade, and while she occasionally grumbles about my hobby,
she supports it because she knows that it's important (not just to
me, but for a larger cause as well).
I believe the use of the term "crap" comes from fundamental
misunderstandings of our common computing history. Sad.
Right now I'm not fully prepared to start taking
in large systems
(larger than S-100 rackmounts). I'm not going to give up my living
space for the hobby.
It all depends upon how seriously we take our hobby, doesn't it.
(That was merely an observation, _not_ an editorial comment!) For
what it's worth, an IMSAI is just about twice the size of a pdp11/23.
And less than a quarter of the CPU power.
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