State of the Hobby

From: Sellam Ismail <dastar_at_ncal.verio.com>
Date: Thu Jul 1 22:00:23 1999

On Thu, 1 Jul 1999, Richard Erlacher wrote:

> What I want to know is why a beginner would want to run old hardware if he
> doesn't know anything about hardware in general and the general class of
> hardware with which he's dealing in particular. I can understand it if he

You've never heard of people wanting to learn? Great attitude.

> I read lots of prose from people who've got lots of pieces of lots of
> systems but haven't a clue what, exactly, is necessary in order to make any
> of the stuff "do something."
>
> Why do you suppose this is?

Because you haven't clued them in?

Sellam Alternate e-mail: dastar_at_siconic.com
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