One from the 'believe it or not' file...

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Sun Nov 16 13:37:51 1997

James Willing wrote:

> You know, I always hate these moral dilemmas...
>
> In the last few days the collection received an AT&T UNIX PC (aka 7300,
> 3b1) in extremely good condition. It arrived with all of the original
> docs, software, and mouse. The docs were unwrapped , and the mouse was in
>
> its original foam packing. "Kind of nice when someone packs things away
> properly" I thought.

> And so, the dilemma... do I open the disks and crank this critter up? Or
>
> just pack it all away as another classic 'artifact'? (or leave it until I
>
> have a fair amount of time to spend with it)

Wow, I wish we all had that type of problem :). My particular solution
would be to try and run diagnostics to make sure the machine ran (if I found
the time to do it) and just pack it away. One thing I do worry about is the
power supply filter caps going bad. I am thinking that for my collection,
powering up the machines periodically would be a good thing to maybe prevent
such problems.
Received on Sun Nov 16 1997 - 13:37:51 GMT