Altair Fan

[Doc Shipley]

Fred Cisin wrote:

> On Fri, 17 Jun 2005, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:
> 
>>seemed to get no flow at all. Reversing the flow made
>>a big difference.
> 
> 
> Ahhhh,
> then you will need to make a sign to put on it to state that the air flow
> has been changed from the "historical"   :-)

   I have a large drawer full of original parts, labeled as to the 
machine they came out of and why.

   For some reason, it never occured to me to label the machine itself 
as altered.  ;)

   What I don't get - and this isn't flame bait, I really don't 
understand - is the mania to preserve systems like S-100 sytems, big-box 
Amigas, even PDP-11s, that very rarely show up in their factory 
configuration.

   I have one box-stock A3000 and one PDP-11/53 that seems to be as 
delivered from DEC.  The extent of hacking I've done is replacing the 
dead hard drive, adding ZIP memory (from an A3000 that no longer needs 
it), and installing Amiga UNIX.  The 11/53 is all original, including 
the OS (RSX11M+ on an RD32), software (centrifuge control), and molly 
guard.  I do have a couple of other Winchester drives that live in it 
some of the time, for beating up on.

   Nearly every other machine I have had been upgraded, altered, hacked, 
or flat-out hack*sawed* to the owners' hearts' content, so why should I 
enjoy them with any less gusto?


	Doc