LOL ... poor woman ... I could only imagine getting all excited that I was gonna get a Sun workstation (especially back in the day when that counted for something a bit above the pale...) and then opening the box and it's just furniture!! Oh no!!
Best, Sean On Tue, Sep 22, 2015 at 11:45 AM, Fred Cisin <ci...@xenosoft.com> wrote: > On Tue, 22 Sep 2015, Ali wrote: > >> >> http://www.vintagecomputing.com/index.php/archives/878/retro-scan-of-the-week-the-official-ibm-pc-desk >> > > I likde those. > > I gave three of those to the college for use as classroom machines. > > I had gotten them for next to nothing, because they were sized for 5150, > not 5170. I made spacers to raise the top panel to fit a thicker machine, > and put much larger casters on them, for door thresholds, a tiled hallway, > and the inevitability that they would be rolled over cords. > > With a relatively small monitor on top, it provided a comfortaqble podium > and computer table for teachers to use while lecturing. > > > A few years later, our department chair at the time (PhD from UCBerkeley) > came running into the lab, squealing, "WE'RE GETTING SUNS!" WE'RE GETTING > SUNS!" She had been informed that at the loading dock, there were three > "Multimedia Workstations" for us. NO, we never got any Suns. The > "multimedia workstations" turned out to be open 3x6 foot computer desks on > casters. THOSE were to be our new classroom computer tables! too deep, > too wide, not tall enough to use while standing, . . . They chucked the > IBM workstations that I had given them (three just like yours) into > dumpsters. Why did I even bother? > > One of their new classroom/demo machine tables had big rubber wheels, that > wouldn't turn easily. They were almost ready to junk it, because their > "support staff" didn't know that pneumatic wheels needed to be inflated. I > pumped them up. > > > -- > Grumpy Ol' Fred ci...@xenosoft.com >
