Floppies_only
Veteran Member
Hi Erik and all,
Seeing how the market for vintage computers has dried up so drastically since I last checked, and how BigDMcLean won't answer my calls anymore (he one sent me a magnetic card that offered repair services), and how my latest acquisition doesn't work right and I need to make it work right, I was thinking that perhaps the time has come for us to pool the pieces and parts we have to keep the systems we have going. Wow, that's a long sentence. Miss Hoops (the hot one from the sixth grade) would never approve.
I was thinking of either a new forum or a new tag for the "Wanted" forum (like WTT, FS) that would indicate that a system had conked out and the still working pieces were available for sale or trade. I have this image of the Pacific gyre turning into a whirlpool and all our stuff failing one by one and sinking, but maybe this would be a good way to keep it alive a little longer.
Does anyone think this is a good idea, a 'virtual junk yard' request line? I could start it off. I have a non-working Thinkpad 700 with an additional 4 megs of RAM that was misrepresented and won't start. Give me the new forum, so people wouln't have that let down feeling when they open the thread and see it's toast, and I'll start it off with the first post.
Thanks,
Sean
Seeing how the market for vintage computers has dried up so drastically since I last checked, and how BigDMcLean won't answer my calls anymore (he one sent me a magnetic card that offered repair services), and how my latest acquisition doesn't work right and I need to make it work right, I was thinking that perhaps the time has come for us to pool the pieces and parts we have to keep the systems we have going. Wow, that's a long sentence. Miss Hoops (the hot one from the sixth grade) would never approve.
I was thinking of either a new forum or a new tag for the "Wanted" forum (like WTT, FS) that would indicate that a system had conked out and the still working pieces were available for sale or trade. I have this image of the Pacific gyre turning into a whirlpool and all our stuff failing one by one and sinking, but maybe this would be a good way to keep it alive a little longer.
Does anyone think this is a good idea, a 'virtual junk yard' request line? I could start it off. I have a non-working Thinkpad 700 with an additional 4 megs of RAM that was misrepresented and won't start. Give me the new forum, so people wouln't have that let down feeling when they open the thread and see it's toast, and I'll start it off with the first post.
Thanks,
Sean
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