Insanity (Was: Re: Beginner into Micros, etc.)

From: Neil Cherry <ncherry_at_home.net>
Date: Sun Oct 22 11:01:42 2000

Mzthompson_at_aol.com wrote:
>
> Eric Smith <eric_at_brouhaha.com> wrote:
>
> > I have thousands of square feet of interesting (to me
> > at least) stuff, mostly DEC minicomputers.
>
> Up to now my collecting has been pretty much DEC stuff and a few
> odd Intel boxes. So I guess you could say we suffer from the same
> form of insanity.
>
> Idea, contest time! We need a name for the form of insanity whereby
> you continue to haul home DEC.

D.E.C.^2 ( Dee Eee Cee Squared), DEC Conservationists, what else (see
your statements below). It's not an illness, it's an enviromental
concern. :-)

> > I find this much more satisfying than having hundreds of units of
> > the same microcomputer, but I'm not criticizing.
>
> It was more of a rescue than looking for satisfaction. I kept them
> from the dumpster. I will keep a couple, and am sure homes can be
> found for the others. Of course there is the testing of all of
> these which will take a fair amount of time.

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