wallythacker - 2005-12-07 2:58 PM
I'll mention an urban legend to help my point. I heard from a friend of a friend that one day while emptying dumpsters at a large corporation a huge number of funny looking small purple computers tumbled from the bin into the truck. The binman picked one up, it looked in good condition, he opened it up and tried to turn it on. But nothing happened as I imagine the battery was dead or missing. So he took this one funny little computer home and the other hundreds of machines went to the landfill.
He then started asking around trying to find somebody who knew about Jornadas. Good grief. If there's any truth to this story what senior imbecile decided to ditch the corporate Jornadas? Why weren't the employees fighting tooth and nail to get one before they were trashed? Why wasn't the IT guy loading them all into his car for resale? What kind of messed up microcosm of society is that? Would *anyone* here behave that stupidly? Not a chance.
Heh, yeah nobody said corporate IT guys were in to the "reduce, reuse, recycle" mentality. Must have fanciest, fastest, bestest toyz to play wit...
Then again, you can go to the extreme in the other direction. I'm an alumni of MIT, and MIT maintains a "reuse" mailing list for MIT community members. People leave things outside their offices on campus, post a message to the list as to where to find the item, and it usually promptly disappears. Several months ago, someone posted a working DEC PDP-11 minicomputer to the reuse list.
I would have probably snagged it for myself, but
(a
) I have no place to put a computer that is half the size of my washing machine, nor the means to lug it back to my apartment, and
(b
) by the time I managed to get to campus to have a look at this relic, it was gone.
Anyway, the moral of the story
(if it has one
) is that there are extremists on both ends here. There are the people that throw away their SIM-based cell phones three month after buying it in order to get the newest, shiniest one available. Then there are the people who will try to make use of a 30-year old minicomputer, just because they can. My guess is that most people fall in to the middle, perhaps leaning closer to one end or the other.
The real question is: How many of you plan to be using your H/PC Pro 3.0 devices in the year 2030? 2020? 2010?
(Assuming they still work, of course.
)
anyway I went to buy a new one today, opened it, found it was way too big, but installed it anyway. So now I have a computer with no outer case on it with a power supply sticking out of the top. Guess what I will ask for instead of a coffee maker.... You guessed it, a new case. I would also like a Velo 1. 
