22 Apr
2004
22 Apr
'04
9:05 a.m.
I like my paycheck a lot. Keeping up with the modern "technologies" and
developing
systems on them that big companies will pay lots of money for has allowed me
to
make a good living for the last 25 years or so, and has helped me purchase a
68
acre farm, build a nice home on a 6 acre pond/lake, and send my kid to
college.
That paycheck also allows me to attempt to purchase "Classic Computer"
stuff.
I also have not forgotten that I owe a lot to the older technologies.
That's where I got
started. If I had not met the PDP 11/40 in 1976, I would not be where I am
today.
Ashley
----- Original Message -----
From: "William Donzelli" <aw288(a)osfn.org>
To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2004 4:49 PM
Subject: Re: Available: DEC LA120 printer
Why? Just
because some supervisor says to do something is no reason
to do something if it's senseless.
It depends on how much you like your paycheck.
taxpayer, you certainly should be able to take a
set of Linux or
FreeBSD CD-ROMs with you to a public library and use them to "repair"
at least one of their computer systems. Doing so may certainly freak
a pretentious librarian out, who claims to know something about
computers and doesn't, but that's not something that you need concern
yourself with.
Not with any of the librarians I know. They would not freak out - stay
cool and collected - as they telephone the police...
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org