More cleaning out the Bob basement

[Toby Thain]

On 2021-09-18 9:39 p.m., Mike Katz via cctalk wrote:
> I did finally dump the first wife.  The second one is just too good to
> dump.
> 

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> On 9/18/2021 8:36 PM, Alexandre Souza wrote:
>> I'd dump the wife...
>>
>> Enviado do meu Tele-Movel
>>
>> Em sáb, 18 de set de 2021 22:33, Mike Katz via cctalk
>> <cctalk at classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org>> escreveu:
>>
>>     I have a basement but I also have a wife who complains everytime I
>>     bring
>>     some orphaned computer part (or camera) home and to the basement.  In
>>     her eyes it's all junk.
>>
>>     Which is worse, no basement or a wife 😁
>>
>>     It was because of my first wife (now ex) that I sold my 2 full
>>     racks of
>>     PDP-8/E equipment.
>>
>>     On 9/18/2021 3:40 PM, Zane Healy via cctalk wrote:
>>     >
>>     >> On Sep 18, 2021, at 1:01 PM, Chris Zach via cctalk
>>     <cctalk at classiccmp.org <mailto:cctalk at classiccmp.org>> wrote:
>>     >>
>>     >> Went over to chip away at the Bob basement, and this time Alex
>>     came with me. This is not a bad idea as if one of the piles shift
>>     and I get stuck it would be nice to have someone there to call 911.
>>     > You might be joking, but this is no joke, it’s a *VERY* good
>>     idea.  Back when my collection was in storage units, I took a
>>     large vintage TV to the head.  Thankfully I was okay, but it could
>>     have been much worse.  After that I started being more cautious.
>>     >
>>     >> Moral: Do not die with a lot of this stuff in your basement. We
>>     were far more able to move this stuff 30 years ago when we were
>>     young than today.
>>     > Good point.  I was reminded of this a few months ago, while I
>>     was working some of my old gear while on my Sabbatical.  The good
>>     news, I don’t have a basement. :-)
>>     >
>>     > Zane
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