I can understand why people go ahead and "toss" things as opposed to going
to the trouble to pack and ship them.
Whereas I seldom object to giving someone who will use it an item in my
storage heap, I have had qualms, at times, about people who wanted
"everything" when I knew up front that it would just go from my dead storage
area to theirs. I never worried so much about what happened to the puppies
I sold. I guess I figured that people willing to pay for something would
care for it and put it to use. What a silly notion!
When I made public what I had here, I got lots of requests for essentially
"all the good stuff" if there is such a designation, and at the end of the
day, so to speak, only one fellow sent funds to cover shipping. I sent him
the two boards he requested, and, as far as I'm concerned, he still has
credit with me for another USPS priority mail shipment of <2 lbs. Of course
shipping boards or diskettes/manuals is pretty easy when compared with
shipping a 20" high by 30" deep metal box . . .
Dick
-----Original Message-----
From: Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com <Philip.Belben_at_pgen.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Tuesday, May 18, 1999 7:50 AM
Subject: Re: Tossing
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>>> Anyway, Macs are prety neat to stack (especialy the classic ones),
>>> and should form a neat wall (maybe for seperation between dining
>>> room and kitchen ?) or can be used as base for a desk etc.
>>>
>>> (I just havn't enough to proove it)
>>
>> I've tested this hypothesis in the lab and have concluded that they do
not
>> stack well. They are angled slightly at the top. With enough Macs you
>> could build a suspension bridge, but I wouldn't drive a car over it.
>
>
>Suspension bridge? I take it you mean an arch bridge...
>
>The way to build a wall is to stack them not all the same way round. The
most
>stable method is probably LRRLLRRLL..., but LRLRLR would probably work (L
and R
>meaning Macs facing Left and Right respectively)
>
>Philip.
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Received on Tue May 18 1999 - 09:35:58 BST