12 Dec
2008
12 Dec
'08
3:51 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
Of course things are different when we're talking
about a hobby (and to
be honset, for most people on this list, classic computers are a
hobby). You do things them because you enjoy them, not because it makes
financial sense. It doesn't amke financial sense to spend several months
writing the repair manual and then restoring a desktop calcaultor when
you canbuy a much more powerful pocket calculator for less than the
repair parts for the old machine cost. But none-the-less I did just that
a couple of years ago, and I enjoyed every minute of it. It's a hobby, so
why not :-)
I concur. My original point was not to apply work-related decisioning
to a hobby, merely to note that those you mentor may not notice you have
two sets of rules. (hobby rules, and work rules) At least for me, they
are significantly different (I use a $2.00 AVR programmer I made because
I'm evidently too cheap to buy a good one, but I'd fire myself if I did
that at work. The cheap programmer sucks CPU and fails every so often,
which is fine for hobby use, but useless for work. Since I'm aware of
the difference, I try to point it out to folks whom I mentor. Although
one might assume the person I mentor would know the difference, I've
learned such assumptions are often invalid.
Jim
For good or bad, my hobby is turning into a side business, which
complicates things further. And, it means I really need to buy or build
a good AVR programmer :-)