[rescue] New subscriber...

Dave McGuire mcguire at neurotica.com
Sat Mar 13 15:00:40 CST 2004


On Mar 13, 2004, at 3:54 PM, Sheldon T. Hall wrote:
>>    Well yeah I guess, fifteen years ago.  I know I'm not the only one
>> here who has tons of parts around.  Sun bootable CDROM drives?  I have
>> eight of them.  10Mbps Ethernet hubs?  I just threw two in the trash
>> because they didn't sell on eBay at $1, so now I'm down to four.  DDS
>> tape drives?  I gave away three of them two months ago.  I think I 
>> have
>> three left.  SCSI hard drives?  You don't even want to know.
>
> Heh, the main difference is that your junk is somewhat better than my 
> junk.
> You have more of it, too, as well as the ability, inclination, and 
> room to
> make more of it more useful.
>
> I aspire to narrow the gap, however.

   Indeed...well one way to do that is to not think of it as "junk".  
I've made a pretty comfy living with my junk for something like twelve 
years, and built a few companies with it in the process.

   It's all a matter of how serious you are about it.

         -Dave

--
Dave McGuire          "PC users only know two 'solutions'...
Cape Coral, FL          reboot and upgrade."    -Jonathan Patschke



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