22 Oct
2000
22 Oct
'00
3:38 a.m.
Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com> wrote:
I have thousands of square feet of interesting (to me
at least) stuff, mostly DEC minicomputers.
Up to now my collecting has been pretty much DEC stuff and a few
odd Intel boxes. So I guess you could say we suffer from the same
form of insanity.
Idea, contest time! We need a name for the form of insanity whereby
you continue to haul home DEC.
I find this much more satisfying than having hundreds
of units of
the same microcomputer, but I'm not criticizing.
It was more of a rescue than looking for satisfaction. I kept them
from the dumpster. I will keep a couple, and am sure
homes can be
found for the others. Of course there is the testing of all of
these which will take a fair amount of time.
In fact, I was basically making that point that
I'm completely insane.
Point taken, and understood.
Mike
22 Oct
22 Oct
3:41 a.m.
On Sun, 22 Oct 2000 Mzthompson(a)aol.com wrote:
Idea, contest time! We need a name for the form of
insanity whereby
you continue to haul home DEC.
Mental DECay?
har har
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Eric Smith <eric(a)brouhaha.com> wrote:
D.E.C.^2 ( Dee Eee Cee Squared), DEC Conservationists, what else (see
your statements below). It's not an illness, it's an enviromental
concern. :-)
I have thousands of square feet of interesting
(to me
at least) stuff, mostly DEC minicomputers.
Up to now my collecting has been pretty much DEC stuff and a few
odd Intel boxes. So I guess you could say we suffer from the same
form of insanity.
Idea, contest time! We need a name for the form of insanity whereby
you continue to haul home DEC. I find this
much more satisfying than having hundreds of units of
the same microcomputer, but I'm not criticizing.
It was more of a rescue than looking for satisfaction. I kept them
from the dumpster. I will keep a couple, and am sure homes can be
found for the others. Of course there is the testing of all of
these which will take a fair amount of time. 
5:49 a.m.
Neil Cherry wrote:
D.E.C.^2 ( Dee Eee Cee Squared), DEC Conservationists,
what else (see
your statements below). It's not an illness, it's an enviromental
concern. :-)
No, it's a illness! Trust me, it's an illness! Though unlike Eric I don't
have <gulp> thousands of square feet of DEC equipment, I do have well over
100 square feet of DEC hardware, software and documentation. It's an
illness! I think it's the documenation that is at fault in the long run.
That and the really good OS's.
Zane
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