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When I was in high school my art department planned to throw away an original iMac blue, knowing the culutral significance of this machine I told them I'll take
by iddan 3y ago
When I was in high school my art department planned to throw away an original iMac blue, knowing the culutral significance of this machine I told them I'll take it but because it was public property (that was planned to be thrown out but anyway) I had to sneak in the end of the day and pick it up. I took it on my hands for 90 minutes on the way home (don't let the handle fool you this thing is heavy!) but I love it and my friends are always in awe I've got one
- somat 3y agoWhen I was in high school I noticed my library was replacing their vt terminals with pc's. I asked if I could buy a terminal and they said just stop by when we close and we will give you one. I was expecting one of the beat up ones used for public card catalog lookup but they gave me the deluxe setup they used behind the desk a vt420 with a dot matrix printer and a wand type barcode scanner. What a score. I wired it up in my little brothers(10) room. He would play nethack and make elaborate barcode based auth systems with it. A lot of fun. I still have strange dreams of running an entire office off terminals to this day. Strangely nobody has taken me up on it yet. But the real lesson is do your part and help a poor high school kid.