Working with useful computers (was: What's your specialty?) - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

12 Feb 2002

Sellam touched off a firestorm of responses:

...
 Ok, now's your chance to discuss your specialty and
get the attention of
other folks who have stuff that you may want. 
Sellam, you *are* keeping a list of these answers, right? If anyone is
brave enough to declare themselves a specialist, they ought to get
questions about their "specialty" directed to them.

Mine (am I really that brave? Sigh):
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Dec Rainbow (see also Jeff Armstrong, or Tony Duell)
	Own a 100A with 8087 board, VR201 and VR240 monitors, tech doc set,
	some software
NeXT (I'm *definitely* not the only or best one of these on the list)
	Own an 040 cube, OD often works, floppy, Laserprinter,
	NS3.0 and 3.3 and a 1.0 OD,
	Mathematica 2.2 and 3.0, WriteNow, various other SW

R. D. Davis asked:
...
 How many here still work, for an
income, with the types of vintage systems they collect?

 ..Out
 of curiosity, how many others here absolutely refuse to work for an
 employer requiring one to work with those confounded annoyances called
 Micro$oft products? 

The NeXT does most of my analysis and coding, a Mac PB3400 does most of the
rest, various Unix Boxen and Macs do what's left. A hand-me-down Power Mac
8500 with Oriffice 2000 translates to sylk or .pdf when I recieve tainted
files from co-workers.
I work pretty hard at not using Micro$oft (and advocating abstinence) but I
admit to bending at times.
								- Mark