--- Dylan McDermond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Anyone else ever found something unexpected on
used machines?
Someone in the UK found a Mac formerly owned by
Douglas Adams (HitchHiker's Guide To The Galaxy)
in a thrift shop. He didn't wipe the drive, nor did
the shop people, it still had a
Hope he had the good sense to hang onto it. Now
that Adams is dead, there may be someone writing
a book on him (if not this year then sometime in
the near future). That data could be priceless.
-Eva
Gregg Eshelman wrote:
--- Dylan McDermond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Anyone else ever
Hope he had the good sense to hang onto it. Now
that Adams is dead, there may be someone writing
a book on him (if not this year then sometime in
the near future). That data could be priceless.
There wasn't that much stuff there... More info at
http://www.mandrake.demon.co.uk/Apple/iifx.html
That's pretty cool. Is it an older Mac that the guy found? Douglas
Adams is a huge Mac fan, and has several Macs.
Sherman
On Jan 9, 2005, at 11:56 PM, Gregg Eshelman wrote:
--- Dylan McDermond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Anyone else ever found something unexpected on
used machines?
Someone
At 9:43 PM -0800 1/9/05, Dylan McDermond wrote:
Anyone else ever found something unexpected on used machines?
Not on a machine per se, but predating that era and going back to
when computer labs would hand you the operating system plus word
processor and a handful of other basic apps when you
That bloke in the UK still owns the ex-Douglas Adams IIfx. I haven't
had reason to use it recently (I bought it to use as a Linux and A/UX
hacking box) but its provenance has been confirmed by Adams's widow.
The sketch that I discovered on the disk (Brief Re-encounter) has
been forwarded to the
So, I've been known to look around a bit when I take old computer
equipment to the computer recycle center at the local waste disposal
facility. Today I ended up taking in an old Pentium-133 PC and coming
back with a Power Mac 7100/80 and a Quadra 650 (one of these days I'm
going to get busted
--- Dylan McDermond [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
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Anyone else ever found something unexpected on
used machines?
Someone in the UK found a Mac formerly owned by
Douglas Adams (HitchHiker's Guide To The Galaxy)
in a thrift shop. He didn't wipe the drive, nor did
the shop people, it still had a
