[EMAIL PROTECTED] Dr. Betz: Hazaa!!! to the man who feels that some things should be left as they were intended. Good, bad, efficient or not but just as they were. If for no other reason, it can be looked back on as the way it was. Jim =;^} ------------- Am 29.06.2005 um 03:32 schrieb Clark Martin: >> Hi all - >> >> I rescued an SE (1mb, 2 800k floppies) from the garbage man this >> morning (literally, the garbage truck was just down the street when I >> noticed the sad little box sitting at the curb between some garbage >> bags and a very rusty lawn spreader). > An aside to those who can afford the luxury to be "keepers": As long as > I don't desperately need to do it because I need a working clock etc, I > would not cut a soldered PRAM battery out and solder a battery holder > in the place. I have enough SE's, SE/30s and motherboards thereof with > factory-mounted batt holders to rig up a machine needed for work if I > want to, so I enjoy to keep some machines just the way they are, > including soldered PRAM batteries, as "time capsules" with their > original, albeit limited, capabilities: 20 MB Miniscribe, 1 MB RAM - > why not? They convey the way of working with an SE in, say, 1988 much > better than a maxed-out 128 MB, 2 GB HD SE/30 with an 040 accelerator > and a 24-bit colour graphics adapter in the PDS driving a 17" monitor. > Sure it's fun having the latter but it's not really "telling". Just my > 2 Euro- Cents. > > Cheers, OM
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