The New York Times - Circuits ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- February 13, 2003
Out With the Old? It's Not So Simple By KATIE HAFNER . . . . Jim Baumbach, 57, a programmer in Manhattan, has seven computers running and several others of varying vintages sitting unused around his home office. "It's like dragging a blanket around," he said. "It's not significant in and of itself. It's your relationship to it. You tell your stories to it. You type stuff into it. You communicate with it, and you project all sorts of life into it." "If you get a new machine you don't want to throw the old one out," he added, "because it still works and you don't know what's on the disk." Mr. Baumbach has such difficulty letting go of his old computers that his wife, who looks upon each extraneous machine as an albatross, managed to persuade him to throw out a few old PC XT's during their last move. One of the deciding factors for Mr. Baumbach was that the machines had become infested with cockroaches. . . . . Sound familiar, survpc'ers? To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
