Craig wrote...
>My all-time coup though? While the time I got a free
Color >Classic (in a box of items donated to a
scrapper) and my >recent purchase of a Powerbook 550c
come to mind, my >biggest acheivement was the time I
bought a Toyota MR2
<SNIP!>
What OS do MR2's run best? I mean, I've tried OS
7.1... ;).
Seriously, it's my habit of rescuing old computers
that darn near ran me out of house and home. I STILL
have a stack of Macintoshes that have to find homes
soon (moving in September), plus various PC's. I'd say
that the thrill is in both the chase and opening them
up, both on the hardware and software levels. Aside
from 5 Compact Macs, I've got 2 PowerBooks, a
Portable, 2 PPC 6100/60(66) with AV, a bevy of Quads,
a couple of II's and a lot of PC stuff. It's easy to
get wrapped up in grabbing these things.
One thing I've noticed, though, and that is Macs are
far easier to repair/restore than PCs, and seem longer
lived. The oldest PC I have (aside from original IBM
PC and an XT, which, like cockroaches, are almost
indestructible) is a Toshiba T1000 laptop, and it is
dead. Dead dead dead. Machine of similar vintage, my
main Plus, runs like a charm. Go figure. Newer PC
desktops seem to have shorter life spans, especially
if they are made by any of the smaller companies that
were around in the late 80's-early 90's (I've found
IBM PS/2 series machines left out in the rain that,
once dry, would run like a charm. Yet I've seen newer
486 and Pent-class machines just as dead as can be). I
have yet to find a Mac that I've not been able to
resurrect. You gotta love 'em.
Rant Off,
Rob
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