minor realization

[solipsistnation]

At this point, I have fewer computers in my home than I have had for years.

In fact, I'm pretty much down to laptop and game machine, and that's it.

Neat.

Comments

[mandy-moon.livejournal.com]

This entry makes me especially happy because you correctly used "fewer" instead of "less." I hate when people do that.


I'm so thrilled! Yay grammar!

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

I am very clever. 8)

[ronebofh.livejournal.com]

If a grammar Nazi makes a "fewer/less" correction, does that make her a "fewer Führer"?

[sauergeek.livejournal.com]

No, merely a member of the Less SS.

[stophittinyrslf.livejournal.com]

neat in both the 'yay! less crap!' and the 'less messy computer bits everywhere' senses!

so....

[greybar.livejournal.com]

want an old Mac?

just kiddin. I'm trying to clean out old stuff as well. There's a PowerMac in the basement gathering dust along with a monitor. *sigh*

must... overcome... ratpack mentality.

oooh, but here's a very useful thick-wire ethernet T-connector... or would be useful if anyone still used it.

[pir.livejournal.com]

I'm starting my annual dispose of stuff routine, but it seems that the only stuff I have that people want is the small things (like the 2x 128Mb ECC PC133 memory that went away last night). I don't want to throw out the ELCs (they make good xterminals) and the other old sparcs, but I feel it might be time.

I'm up to owning about 16 computers. Not all of them are in the house, however.

[solipsistnation.livejournal.com]

The local ACM kids were happy to have a Sparc... Um, ELC? The better of the two built into the monitor?

I had one of those and it was snapped up pretty quick when the vultures raided my contributions to the loading dock.

[pir.livejournal.com]

ELC, yes. The SLC was the older one that took less memory and was slightly slower.

Do you have any way to offer them more ELCs ? I have two in good working order (plus a sparc 1+, sparc 2 and sparc classic) that I'd rather went somewhere useful than go to a dump.

[blarglefiend.livejournal.com]

I sometimes think that I really ought to get rid of *all* my general purpose computers and replace them with a single iMac.

The mediabeast would be replaced by some sort of set-top-box-shaped quiet thing able to do the same sort of stuff (think "TiVo able to play MPEG-4").

And all the piles of junk -- all the boxes and bags of cables and old disks and 3c501s, all of it -- would go too.

I'd need about half the living space I have, then. Much cheaper.