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I'm a hoarder as well, at least computer wise. I still have every machine that I have ever owned over the last 20 years, probably over a dozen or more. I also have a TI/99-4a in the box which was my first, from around '83 I think.
Anybody need a LS-120 drive and disks? 
"Go forth into the source" - Neal Morse
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Quote: Anybody need a LS-120 drive and disks?
No thanks; I have a bunch. I keep them next to my collection of IOmega drives and disks. 
- I would love to change the world, but they won’t give me the source code.
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kmoorevs wrote: I still have every machine that I have ever owned over the last 20 years
Oh, I give old computers away, to schools and what have you -- but I do so with them complete with all the upgraded hardware, so what I get to keep is the worse quality stuff and the smaller memory sticks.
I get the feeling that I'm doing it wrong, somehow.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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A post like that will get me started just about every time...
I've got memory sticks I don't recognize and have no idea what type of system they'll fit.
I did bring a bunch of old hardware for recycling a few years ago...SCSI adapters, old NICs, AGP video cards, sound cards, lots of serial, parallel, IDE and SCSI cables...and I still have a bunch left. I must have 50 unused hard drives, although some are still recent (up to 4TB) which I really ought to turn into a big consolidated pool just for the sake of having an extra backup.
I did keep one SCSI adapter (and a functional system that can use it), since I still have an expensive SCSI scanner with a significantly larger scan area than most.
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SCSI to db25? Same here.
I've also got a ton and a half of serial data kit & cables, but I didn't include them on my list, because they came in bloody handy during a long contract (>6 months), a while back, for a place that produces systems using standards that have to be approved by about 73,000 countries.
By the time they've finally all approved the use of Ethernet, we'll all be using something else.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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Mark_Wallace wrote: SCSI to db25? Same here.
My scanner? Nope. It came with its own cable, SCSI at both ends.
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Mark_Wallace wrote: with a capacity of under a third of a gig
That big? I remember getting the first 10MB hard drive in the company. The peons were jealous!
(Are there no electronics recyclers in the area? Or are you wanting to appear on an episode of Hoarders?)
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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I still have my first ever hard disk - a 20MB hard card for an ISA slot that cost me £250, and my first ever USB thumbdrive - 64MB
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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Ah, but those have sentimental value. Most of what I've kept only has value if you're just mental, without the senti.
I wanna be a eunuchs developer! Pass me a bread knife!
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I've also got various PC's (my oldest is an 8086 running DOS 3.1), boxes of cables, disks, soundcards and even an old Toshiba laptop with a 2 inch floppy disk drive!
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I'm an optoholic - my glass is always half full of vodka.
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The question here is really vague, and possibly might be a bit sided on this forum.
So, answer however you think, provide you input as to "Steve Jobs or Bill Gates"
Be it:
Who has provided more influence in the tech industry?
Which was better a pong?
Who was the better CEO?
Who have helped the world better with their technology solutions?
Who was smarter?
Which looked better in a black turtleneck and blue jeans?
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Oh please. Salma Hayek.
"It is easy to decipher extraterrestrial signals after deciphering Javascript and VB6 themselves.", ISanti[ ^]
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you broke me.
I assume you also solve 1 + 2 = Banana
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Scarlett Johanson
".45 ACP - because shooting twice is just silly" - JSOP, 2010
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You can never have too much ammo - unless you're swimming, or on fire. - JSOP, 2010
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When you pry the gun from my cold dead hands, be careful - the barrel will be very hot. - JSOP, 2013
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Phah!
Ann Margret - Dancing with a book!
Socialism is the Axe Body Spray of political ideologies: It never does what it claims to do, but people too young to know better keep buying it anyway. (Glenn Reynolds)
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Gotta love the classics  .
Software Zen: delete this;
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Influence in the tech industry - Gates but Jobs in other industries such as communication and entertainment.
Pong - Tie, they both sucked.
CEO - Gates was a better traditional businessman.
Helped the world with their solutions - Tie, both were instrumental in revolutionary changes in several industries.
Smarter - Gates but Jobs was more visionary.
Looked better in turtleneck and jeans - Jobs but then again I've never seen Gates dressed like that.
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Seems about right.
Mike Mullikin wrote: Smarter - Gates but Jobs was more visionary.
Yes. But also "visionary" shouldn't be underrated. Consider the position of Apple with Jobs, then without, then with, then without.
Kevin
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One created an OS that is found on nearly every end-user system, the other tried to sell something similar to an OS for a niche.
One is an actual programmer, the other was a salesman.
Bastard Programmer from Hell 
If you can't read my code, try converting it here[^]
"If you just follow the bacon Eddy, wherever it leads you, then you won't have to think about politics." -- Some Bell.
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Eddy Vluggen wrote: the other tried to sell something similar to an OS for a niche
Are you Steve Wozniak in disguise? That's what he thought too.
Wozniak: ...the Macintosh, which wasn't really a computer, just a program that looked like a computer and led to big problems later on;
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The only company that closes their operating system to their own produced devices.That's all.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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Umm... Aren't _most_ Operating Systems hardware-specific?
Try running OpenVMS on an IBM system.
If you're talking about only _consumer-grade_ Operating Systems, then I still don't see a problem.
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There is no problem, Apple is very successful. I just don't like it.
Consider Microsoft windows. The possibilities to build a machine that will run it are endless.
Android is available on all kinds of different devices from thousands of vendors.
Apple has two or three iPhones, two or three laptops and two or three desktops, very limited opportunities to customise them. That is why I never bought personally an Apple device and use them only because my work requires it.
In other words, Apple is a hardware company first and I'm a software guy.
modified 20-Oct-19 21:02pm.
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IBM is a hardware company. DEC was a hardware company -- Compaq and HP... hardware companies.
Apple being a hardware company is not the issue.
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