To whoop Ken's ass (was: Re: [geeks] Trade U30 for G3 mac B&W ?

[Ken Hansen]

Regarding my list:

Monitors: Having lost two 19" monitors in transit, I am tired of throwing out "cheap" monitors. I have a *new* 21" Sun, a 20" Sun that needs some TLC (current workbench tube, the guns seem out of alignment), and about 3 or 4 17" Sun monitors of various age - I have more tubes than active machines at this point.

Looking in the latest newpaper ads, 17" monitors (*new*) are around $100 - and for my money, that beats the *snot* out of 8 year old sorta fuzzy Sun monitors...

Keyboards: Sun 5c can still be gotten new in the box, with a bit of dilligence (doesn't everyone have a stock pile of keyboards? ;^) ANd yes, those IBM keyboards *are* freakin industructable!

Ken

-----Original Message-----
From: Brian Hechinger [mailto:wonko at arkham.ws]
Sent: Monday, July 23, 2001 6:58 PM
To: geeks at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: To whoop Ken's ass (was: Re: [geeks] Trade U30 for G3 mac
B&W ?


On Mon, Jul 23, 2001 at 06:12:10PM -0400, Ken Hansen wrote:
> In my book, there are a few things you should always buy new:
> 
> 	Monitors

eh, if you say so. :)

> 	Keyboards

only if sun starts manufacturing the Type5c again

> 	*Mice*

see above.

> 	Porches (in theory, haven't bought any yet...)

what?  i think the new ones are crap, you gotta buy a 70s 911 or a 50s 35Speedster if you want a "Real Porsche"(TM)

> 	Spouses (based on a limited sample size of *one*!)

i'm not going to comment.

> A good monitor, keyboard, and mouse will last for years - my IBM keyboards will *never* die... (haven't yet!)

everything will wear out one day.  except maybe those IBM keyboards from about
10 years ago, those things are frickin' indistructable.

-brian
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