Repair or Replace?

From: Mark Gregory <mgregory_at_vantageresearch.com>
Date: Mon Jul 17 17:45:24 2000

-----Original Message-----
From: Mike Ford <mikeford_at_socal.rr.com>
To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org <classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org>
Date: Monday, July 17, 2000 4:27 PM
Subject: Re: Repair or Replace?


>
>I sure wish I had sane reasons for a lot of what I do. Repairs are things
I
>just find myself doing without a lot of conscious thought. I do from time
>to time have enough presence of mind to stop when it leaks into some
>functioning portion of my brain that the object at hand is a worthless
>piece of junk even if working, ie seriously yellow keyboard with missing
>keycaps and broken screw mounting posts.
>

Often, I find that I've developed an emotional attachment to stuff that is
otherwise worthless junk. For example, I once agonized over throwing out
the shell of a Coleco ADAM keyboard with a cracked circuit board, because I
remebered the thrill of finding the system it belonged to tucked into a
dusty corner in a thrift store a few years ago.

>Having a couple boxes for different grades of "junk" helps a lot due to
>magnet force all empty boxes exude. When you have a box for breakage, or
>scrap circuit boards, they tend to get filled up. Without said boxes I
tend
>to put things down on any convient surface to "look at" later.
>


Sounds like my "study" (where little studying ever gets done) which has
computers in various stages of disassembly on every flat surface (and a few
piles rising up from the floor). I generally keep the door closed to
prevent gasps of "what the heck happened in here!" from any uninitiated
passersby.

Cheers,
Mark
Received on Mon Jul 17 2000 - 17:45:24 BST