Many things

[Tony Duell]

> Define "non-Classic", after all by this lists definition of "Classic" you'll
> be able to run Windows 95 in a year.  If you're limiting yourself to your
> VAXen and the like, the time is going to come when you won't be able to get
> Hard Drives to replace dead ones.

Should it ever come to that -- that is that I can't get the parts to 
_repair_ the hard drives (note : I would certainly consider making a 
'clean box' to work on the inside of the HDA if necessary), then I would 
grab the soldering iron, raid the junk box, and design an interface to a 
more modern storage device. Heck, I've seen flash memory cards with more 
storage than the hard drives in most of my machines....

> Or perhaps it shows how you are limiting yourself.  Many of the things that
> I use a computer for are either not practical, or just plain impossible on

It depends on what you want to do, I guess. I have no interest -- at all 
-- in digital audio or video processing. I will only _consider_ buying a 
digital camera when the results available are better than those from my 
currnet film-based cameras (which, considering I have a number of 
large-format sheet film cameras, won't be for some time!). For the 
applications I use a computer for (text processing, programming, 
supporting my classics by doing automatic testing, EPROM dumping, 
assembling/disassembly binary programs, etc) a classic computer does all 
I need!

-tony