Working with useful computers (was: What's your specialty?)

From: Mark Tapley <mtapley_at_swri.edu>
Date: Tue Feb 12 23:21:32 2002

Sellam touched off a firestorm of responses:

>Ok, now's your chance to discuss your specialty and get the attention of
>other folks who have stuff that you may want.

Sellam, you *are* keeping a list of these answers, right? If anyone is
brave enough to declare themselves a specialist, they ought to get
questions about their "specialty" directed to them.

Mine (am I really that brave? Sigh):
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Dec Rainbow (see also Jeff Armstrong, or Tony Duell)
        Own a 100A with 8087 board, VR201 and VR240 monitors, tech doc set,
        some software
NeXT (I'm *definitely* not the only or best one of these on the list)
        Own an 040 cube, OD often works, floppy, Laserprinter,
        NS3.0 and 3.3 and a 1.0 OD,
        Mathematica 2.2 and 3.0, WriteNow, various other SW

R. D. Davis asked:
>How many here still work, for an
>income, with the types of vintage systems they collect?
>
> ..Out
> of curiosity, how many others here absolutely refuse to work for an
> employer requiring one to work with those confounded annoyances called
> Micro$oft products?


The NeXT does most of my analysis and coding, a Mac PB3400 does most of the
rest, various Unix Boxen and Macs do what's left. A hand-me-down Power Mac
8500 with Oriffice 2000 translates to sylk or .pdf when I recieve tainted
files from co-workers.
I work pretty hard at not using Micro$oft (and advocating abstinence) but I
admit to bending at times.
                                                                - Mark
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