No such thing as scrap (Was: Re: The Unit (was: One-upsmanship (was: Secret Mac))") - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

19 Apr 2002

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  "Douglas H. Quebbeman" wrote:

  Hans Franke wrote:

  Well, for stand alone machines i'd say yes.
Alas you may
 include necersary perhipherals. Like operators desk and
 so on. But only necersary - a Zuse doesn't work without
 the operator desk, while a average unix box quite well
 boots without console terminal. 
  BTW: who cares about PC boxes ? 
 My PC jumps up and bites you in the LEG. Down BOY Down DOWN!  
 Clearly, your PC hasn't been smacked with an Etherkiller lately...

 Curb that dog, son!  
 Generally the 28k baud serial cable keeps him under control.
 There is still a lot of things that only run under windows, games for
 example ( or Free FPGA software) that linux just does not have yet.
 Anyway lets not forget that in 10 years err 1 year your new pc will be
 outdated any how and heading to the dumpster soon. 
The last computer equipment I sent to the junkyard were 
pieces and parts of an IBM 711 Card Reader and 716 Line
Printer that I could kick myself over.

Before that, I stripped the switches and LEDS from a control
panel from a System/36. Now one's on sale on E-Pay starting
at about $40....

*NOTHING* gets trashed anymore. Not even those XT mobos
I can't *currently* think of any use for... 

-dq