List charter mods & headcount... ;-)

From: Teo Zenios <teoz_at_neo.rr.com>
Date: Wed Jun 16 21:08:58 2004

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From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf_at_siconic.com>
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Subject: Re: List charter mods & headcount... ;-)


> On Wed, 16 Jun 2004, William Donzelli wrote:
>
> > > It's amazing that it's been 7 years. I can't believe how much time
and
> > > money I've wasted on this "hobby" ;)
> >
> > Don't forget wear and tear on the car, house, marriage, cat, job, bones,
> > etc..
>
> I can say that during the time I've been actively collecting I have
> lost--with the exception of the house--one of each of those, though
> not all as a consequence of the collecting. I can't really say I've lost
> any bones. Surprisingly, throughout I've never had any serious or even
> semi-serious injuries. Just your basic cuts, scratches and bruises.
>
> Some losses were a blessing in disguise (guess which one? :) Some were
> bitter-sweet. I most recently "lost" my psycho cat. She bit the
> neighbor's baby. We had to quarantine her in the garage for 10 days. On
> around the 9.5th day she managed to escape (don't worry, she was clean)
> and (I assume) she decided she would rather take her chances elsewhere
> than be cooped up in the garage anymore. Silly cat. I couldn't keep her
> out before. This has nothing really to do with the collecting, but she
> did use to sneak into the garage and sleep on top of boxes of old computer
> documents and stuff and make a big cat-hair mess, which pissed me off to
> no end.
>
> Anyway, she was a pain in the ass, though I loved the little bitch. She
> was around 10 years old but looked and behaved like she was 2. On the
> bright side, now I can get a kitten again :)
>
> --
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer
Festival

Well if you guys started collecting back in 97-98 you probably got quite a
few expensive computers for next to nothing, which is allot harder to do
today when there are more people in the hobby. I didn't start until 3 or so
years ago, but I don't go for the rarities anyway.

As far as the cat thing goes my parents (who I live with) adopted a stray
cat that was pregnant a couple of years ago and liked the kittens so much
she kept them. While I love those cats also there was a day I could have
killed them when I discovered 3 sets of KVM cables and a few 9v wall mounted
power supplies all chewed up. Good thing they get over the chewing phase.

P.S. Anybody here get into the Computer Chronicles TV show from the 80's and
90's? There is an ftp site that has tons of episodes in mpeg format (1gb per
30 mins or so). I grabbed a few so far and they bring back the memories I
had of watching the PBS show in the 80's.
Received on Wed Jun 16 2004 - 21:08:58 BST