On Thu, 10 Aug 2000 22:33:13 +0000 J. J. Young [EMAIL PROTECTED] said: Subject: Re: On topic : Arachne CGA >Neil's been dumpster diving! Totally right - all you could see were a pair of feet sticking out. In the closest my employers come to something like christmas, they threw out all their last *working* 486-286 boxes after offering the better ones to staff. I managed to fish out a stack of 4Mb simms, hard drives (80meg upwards - wooooh), modems, network cards....and 3 industrial epson printers one with A4 auto sheet feed! Not bad for a half hour of skip-fishing. Then it started raining...weeeell thats the UK for you. PS A skip looks like this: \_____/ and rapidly fills with old beds, junk, prams (buggies) and anything else considered fair game by people who aren't paying for it. Something like the web then ;-) >Eric wrote: > Hi Neil, > I note your subject line. But to understand the > jist of things one has to know the idioms. What is a "skip"? > Neil wrote: >> Completely at the other end of the spectrum, I fished a 286 Toshiba >> laptop out of a skip a few months ago...960K ram, CGA (mono) screen, >> 20Mb HDD. Thought to trial arachne on it with a working 14k modem from >> the same skip.
