One of the sadest things I've seen in a while
I was leaving for lunch today and went by our loading dock. There were around 35 Mac SE's sitting on a pallet to be sent for surplus. Nothing new here.
The sad part was that there were 3 guys with hammers beating the heck out of the cases in order to rip out the HD's. There were parts all over the place. Seeing all those SE's with gaping holes in them almost made me cry.
The sad part was that there were 3 guys with hammers beating the heck out of the cases in order to rip out the HD's. There were parts all over the place. Seeing all those SE's with gaping holes in them almost made me cry.
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- Xidius
Originally posted by podmate
I was leaving for lunch today and went by our loading dock. There were around 35 Mac SE's sitting on a pallet to be sent for surplus. Nothing new here.
The sad part was that there were 3 guys with hammers beating the heck out of the cases in order to rip out the HD's. There were parts all over the place. Seeing all those SE's with gaping holes in them almost made me cry.
OK, thats it!!!! WHAT IS WITH YOU PEOPLE? It is a mac, and they are great but, in the end it is a computer, nothing less and nothing more. just bits bytes, wire and chips, why so emotional?
(Non-evil disclaimer: it didn't work).
Originally posted by a_greer
OK, thats it!!!! WHAT IS WITH YOU PEOPLE? It is a mac, and they are great but, in the end it is a computer, nothing less and nothing more. just bits bytes, wire and chips, why so emotional?
What is it with you people who don't understand the connection between man and machine?
People are allowed to get teary eyed over cars, but not their computers? Gimme a break...
Not our fault you never had a computing experience good enough and eye opening enough to get attached to one of your machines.
Originally posted by Pumpkintosh
Not our fault you never had a computing experience good enough and eye opening enough to get attached to one of your machines.
Well, here in windows land, I think of my computer much like a car, it needs rutien maintenance, and a little tlc, but take care of it and it will take care of u, and then every 3 or 4 years (or less if budget allows) I buy/build a new one and sell/give/toss/reuse the old one, no biggie, I understand Mac os and all the hardware is great but what is it that drives mac people to the lengths they go?
Just Screw It
Also, a_greer, do you have a relative named Michael_M? He used to post here awl thee thyme!
Here's the best part. Several of my users weren't able to update because Windows Update would fail. Followed the trouble shooter with no luck. I finally found that it was and OKI printer driver that was causing it not to work. How a printer driver can dork up the update system I'll never know. !@*&^% Windows XP!
I still have every computer I've ever owned, and I've never owned anything but a Mac. I just can't let these things go. I'll never be able to. I could go into my crawl space and pull my Mac + out of a box and boot it and mess around for a while if I wanted to. It's awesome that it still works. I want to be able to show my kids someday how computers used to be, back in the day, before displays were holographs, HDDs were 10tb, and the slowest Mac was dual 5.0ghz G7s.
I'll boot up that old Mac+, or my LC and remember how things were in the good old days.
Too bad. For the price of 1 on the SE's I would have wiped the HD's of all ~35 of them.
Oh well. What do you expect from a windows worshiping institution.