North Star Horizon

From: Aaron Christopher Finney <aaron_at_wfi-inc.com>
Date: Fri May 15 10:55:56 1998

> >> > It interests me why some one wants a particular machine especially
> >> > since you do not seem to know much about it.

Agreed with the previous gentlemen. My latest blind rescue was that 68020
Cadnetix system, where the company went under 10 years ago and every
technical document on it seems to have ended up in a Colorado landfill. I
finally tracked down one of the original engineers (from on-line resumes,
of all things) to get some info on it. Granted, it's still dead (and from
what I've learned, probably will stay that way forever) but I'll be damned
if I didn't learn quite a lot from it. As for wanting a specific machine,
I have spent my entire life lusting after machines that I have never even
seen in person, let alone had detailed hardware experience with! What is
it that really makes us want these machines, anyway? Not to say that these
machines are useless, but nobody collects classic computers because of
their amazing processor speed or mammoth memories. It's a much more
rounded aesthetic, having to do with colours, shapes, sounds, etc. I could
easily *see* a computer that *looks* interesting and ask for one by name,
without even knowing where the power switch is. That's the whole fun of
it.


Aaron
Received on Fri May 15 1998 - 10:55:56 BST