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Warren Oates

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Jan 2, 2013, 4:14:12 PM1/2/13
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I was just going through all my old junk I've had for years. Some of it
is still useful (canon to rca (and on to bnc) cables)). I have a buddy
runs a sound studio will probably be happy to have that kind stuff in a
box. I've got a mini-jack stereo to canon for him too.

Then I'm look a bit further, you know, and I'm thinking "one day
Superman will come to me and say 'Warren, Warren, Warren!. If I don't
find a USB-to-ADB adapter in the next 15 seconds the earth will fall
into the sun,' and I'd be all 'Well, Superman, I think I might be able
to help you out there,' and he'd be like 'Thank God. You don't happen to
have an ethernet to localtalk bridge and a small SCSI terminator do
you?'"
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Jim Janney

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Jan 2, 2013, 5:39:53 PM1/2/13
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Warren Oates <warren...@gmail.com> writes:

> I was just going through all my old junk I've had for years. Some of it
> is still useful (canon to rca (and on to bnc) cables)). I have a buddy
> runs a sound studio will probably be happy to have that kind stuff in a
> box. I've got a mini-jack stereo to canon for him too.
>
> Then I'm look a bit further, you know, and I'm thinking "one day
> Superman will come to me and say 'Warren, Warren, Warren!. If I don't
> find a USB-to-ADB adapter in the next 15 seconds the earth will fall
> into the sun,' and I'd be all 'Well, Superman, I think I might be able
> to help you out there,' and he'd be like 'Thank God. You don't happen to
> have an ethernet to localtalk bridge and a small SCSI terminator do
> you?'"

At least you know what they are. I have a large collection of mystery
cables and mystery adapters.

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Jim Janney

Jolly Roger

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Jan 2, 2013, 6:02:19 PM1/2/13
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In article <ydn4niz...@shell.xmission.com>,
I hang onto a lot of old stuff like that in the hopes that one day I
will have a room dedicated to keeping old stuff running - a personal
museum of sorts. : )

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Warren Oates

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Jan 2, 2013, 7:00:08 PM1/2/13
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In article <jollyroger-F805A...@news.individual.net>,
Jolly Roger <jolly...@pobox.com> wrote:

> In article <ydn4niz...@shell.xmission.com>,
> Jim Janney <jja...@shell.xmission.com> wrote:
>
> > Warren Oates <warren...@gmail.com> writes:
> >
> > > I was just going through all my old junk I've had for years. Some of it
> > > is still useful (canon to rca (and on to bnc) cables)). I have a buddy
> > > runs a sound studio will probably be happy to have that kind stuff in a
> > > box. I've got a mini-jack stereo to canon for him too.
> > >
> > > Then I'm look a bit further, you know, and I'm thinking "one day
> > > Superman will come to me and say 'Warren, Warren, Warren!. If I don't
> > > find a USB-to-ADB adapter in the next 15 seconds the earth will fall
> > > into the sun,' and I'd be all 'Well, Superman, I think I might be able
> > > to help you out there,' and he'd be like 'Thank God. You don't happen to
> > > have an ethernet to localtalk bridge and a small SCSI terminator do
> > > you?'"
> >
> > At least you know what they are. I have a large collection of mystery
> > cables and mystery adapters.
>
> I hang onto a lot of old stuff like that in the hopes that one day I
> will have a room dedicated to keeping old stuff running - a personal
> museum of sorts. : )

Well, that's how it started out, but then I realized that once I'd fired
up the old Quadra 630, with that expensive video capture card and NIC
that I'd installed, that it really didn't do anything I was interested
in by then, and I'd shut it down. Eventually I gave it away. But I kept
the box of junk, because, he, you never know when Superman needs might
need a plain-talk microphone or that camera that looked like a ball,
went in the serial port. Remember the Thunderscanner? Somewhere, I've
still got the ZX81 ...

Jolly Roger

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Jan 2, 2013, 11:18:22 PM1/2/13
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In article <50e4ca09$0$28717$c3e8da3$f017...@news.astraweb.com>,
Sounds like the Connectix QuickCam camera. I usually have one of those
connected to my Mac SE when it's up and running. : )

I sold my ZX81 on eBay a few years ago for $30 or so after a closet
cleaning excursion. : D

Suze

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Jan 3, 2013, 7:08:17 AM1/3/13
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In article <jollyroger-33467...@news.individual.net>,
Yeah, I got one of those "antique boxes" myself. Honestly, half of it
I'm not even sure what it's used for anymore. My how times change.
And my old 8600 still sits collecting dust in the corner of my office,
hasn't been booted in years. I upgraded to a 1st gen Mac Mini in about
1995-6 and never looked back.
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Andreas Rutishauser

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Jan 4, 2013, 1:03:02 AM1/4/13
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Salut Suze

In article
<replytome-1985B...@news.eternal-september.org>,
Suze <repl...@thenewsgroup.com> wrote:


> I upgraded to a 1st gen Mac Mini in about
> 1995-6 and never looked back.

you haven't as the first Mac mini was introduced in January 2005

Cheers
Andreas

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tom koehler

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Apr 11, 2013, 11:49:17 PM4/11/13
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On Wed, 2 Jan 2013 16:14:12 -0500, Warren Oates wrote
(in message <50e4a325$0$38196$c3e8da3$f626...@news.astraweb.com>):

> I was just going through all my old junk I've had for years. Some of it
> is still useful (canon to rca (and on to bnc) cables)). I have a buddy
> runs a sound studio will probably be happy to have that kind stuff in a
> box. I've got a mini-jack stereo to canon for him too.
>
> Then I'm look a bit further, you know, and I'm thinking "one day
> Superman will come to me and say 'Warren, Warren, Warren!. If I don't
> find a USB-to-ADB adapter in the next 15 seconds the earth will fall
> into the sun,' and I'd be all 'Well, Superman, I think I might be able
> to help you out there,' and he'd be like 'Thank God. You don't happen to
> have an ethernet to localtalk bridge and a small SCSI terminator do
> you?'"
>

heh, I'm still using an ADB-USB adapter to run my old Wacom tablet. Ain't
great, but works well enough for me.
tom koehler


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