[rescue] storing old Suns and parts

[John Hudak]

Just an observation from personal experience...reasonable spouses can
become unreasonable.  My PDP 8/E in a full size rack has followed me from
grad school (in my apt) and joined along the way by a collection of PDP
11/34s, 73's and assortment of uVax'es (4000/300 and high performance
graphics stations) into our house with a good size basement and garage.  As
we have an eye to downsizing at this point in life, that question that has
become the forcing function is 'what are you going to do with all those
machines??? (she is, btw an advanced degree CS major). and the corollary
'You don't turn them on anymore, or if you do, it becomes more of fixing
them rather than doing anything with them'.   Hmmm logic vs
emotion/enjoyment.   Answers still TBD......(the answer of 'one of these
days' begins to sound hollow after many years....)  To each their own....

Prying the logic analyzer pod ' from my cold dead hands'....lol
John


On Sat, Apr 11, 2026 at 8:22 AM Dave McGuire via rescue <rescue at sunhelp.org>
wrote:

>    You're hanging out with the wrong crowd. ;)  We meet people at LSSM
> all the time, including just yesterday, who have a great interest in all
> of these systems.
>
>    Maybe there's some way to get the word out.  The hard part would be
> weeding out the scumbags who will turn around and put stuff on eBay.
>
>    One thing I've noticed, though, is that a lot of them are college
> students who have no space.  The disturbing trend of people living with
> their parents until well into adulthood isn't making that situation any
> better.  So it becomes important to catch people after they have become
> established as adults and have a little space, but before they marry
> unreasonable spouses (as they invariably do) won't let them own anything
> that they want to own.  There's a narrow window there.
>
>                -Dave
>
> --
> Dave McGuire, AK4HZ
> New Kensington, PA
>
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