ProgrammerAtArms (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} asciilifeform) wrote,@ 2008-06-07 00:46:00 |
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| Current location: | console |
| Current mood: |  contemplative |
"Deliver me from temptation, but not quite yet."
Yielded to temptation:
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Left: Omega, the Alpha. Thusly named by previous owner! Right: His friends (and organ donors.)
Alpha 21164 600 MHz CPU, 1.5GB RAM; Total cost of adventure: $50. If these could be transported backwards in time just short of one decade and sold, a Rolls Royce could easily be bought with the proceeds. Not that I have much need of a Rolls Royce. In fact, I've dreamed of owning a working Alpha since I first saw one advertised in Computer Shopper in the mid 1990s. Of course, I did not have a good excuse for wanting one until exactly a year ago.
In other news: organic lab is held in a luxurious new chemistry wing. Even with individual hoods! Plus colorful Testudo decals on the glassware! Decadence.
Alpha 21164 600 MHz CPU, 1.5GB RAM; Total cost of adventure: $50. If these could be transported backwards in time just short of one decade and sold, a Rolls Royce could easily be bought with the proceeds. Not that I have much need of a Rolls Royce. In fact, I've dreamed of owning a working Alpha since I first saw one advertised in Computer Shopper in the mid 1990s. Of course, I did not have a good excuse for wanting one until exactly a year ago.
In other news: organic lab is held in a luxurious new chemistry wing. Even with individual hoods! Plus colorful Testudo decals on the glassware! Decadence.
