In article rs.com,
DoN. Nichols wrote:

According to Peter Wiley :
In article rs.com,
DoN. Nichols wrote:

I don't work here (only) for the salary, I like the toys.........

One of the things which I don't get while being retired. (And
back when I was working, the toys were rather restricted, because I was
working for the Government at that time.

Wrong department, obviously :-) I work in the marine research area,
anything less than $10K is small change when you spend millions every
year. I dropped my last laptop onto a steel deck 2 days prior to
sailing for an 8 week cruise. Bag zip broke. Whip out the Govt Visa
card & buy another one, then clone all the s/ware across (the dropped
one was still working, but who knew for how long). Nearly 2 years
later, the dropped laptop is still working.

BTW the Mac Minis are nice little boxes. I pensioned off my venerable
old IPX for one. The IPX is now a doorstop, but a respected doorstop.
Somewhere there's a SPARC 2, and a 5. I still use an Ultra 2 and have a
pensioned off Ultra 10 that's too good to part with but have no
immediate use for.

PDW