According to Peter Wiley :
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 :-)

A R&D lab which was part of the Army. Lots of paperwork
accounting for everything. :-)

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.

Pretty good.

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.

It is even a fairly reasonable size and shape to be a 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.

I'm using a couple of Ultra-2s, an ultra-1, several SS-5s,
SS-10s, and one SS-20 at the moment, plus a backup web server on an
Ultra-5 (pretty much the same as the Ultra-10, but smaller, and less
expansion capability.

Enjoy,
DoN.

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