[TheForge] Re: [Digrssion from] Excessive scaling?

[Michael Horgan]

My boss at Gifford Engineering carried around a check for $2000 for 
years. Every time he went in to buy a computer, the geeks there would 
show him one but lapse rhapsodic about the new and better one coming 
out next month, so he'd put the money back in his pocket. He finally 
bought a pickup truck load of Kaypros from Andy Kay. Refurbed. He 
stacked them in a closet, and ran his business with dbase and 
WordStar on floppies. When a computer died, he could toss it and pull 
another one out of the closet. <GRIN> No chance of someone stealing 
his customer database either.   I think he finally joined the rest of 
us last year.


>And at one point, affter they had become obsolete, I had 7 working
>Osborne I's on one of which Peggy wrote her master's thesis.  Finally
>took 9 Osbornes, a couple of Kaypros and various peripherals -- a
>Cavalier 2-door stuffed tightly full -- to a computer museum last
>year.
>
>Maybe all we'uns blacksmiths should visit Slash/dot and vote in their
>"survey". They're running as their silly survey topic:  What do you
>usually write with? Pen, pencil, marker... and "hammer and chisel" is
>one of the options. :-)
>
>- Mike
>
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