Novice prospectors guide

From: Lawrence LeMay <lemay_at_cs.umn.edu>
Date: Sat Feb 27 15:15:56 1999

> > > Just from hanging around this list, you should be able to pick up what
> > > machines are most generally coveted/respected/common/whatever. However,
> > > you should bring home everything _especially_ if you can't identify it.
> > > Remember, the stuff you can't identify is most likely to be something cool
> > > that all of us will then respect you for. Well, maybe not, but you'll get
> > > more hours of fun from it ;)
> >
> > Max, I would not recommend picking up just anything if you are a novice.
> > You may end up bringing home plenty of unintersting PC clones.
>
> If it looks like a PC-clone (vertical metal strips for the expansion
> slots at the back), then it's either a boring PC-clone or one of the
> _very_ interesting Whitechapel machines :-)...
>
> Seriously, PC-clones shouldn't be too hard to recogise, particularly if
> you can look inside the case.

Well, considering some Apollo computers look like they were built into
a IBM-AT metal case, sometimes its not easy to distinguish something
important from a PC clone.

-Lawrence LeMay
Received on Sat Feb 27 1999 - 15:15:56 GMT