spihunter wrote:
I picture this guy living in a shack in the middle of nowhere with stacks of broken Amiga 1000's & 2000's piled up on his front porch. He probably wears nothing but old button up shirts and army fatigues.
He is what I like to call a "technology redneck"
A rare but dangerous breed. Instead of focusing on the usual stuff like cars & guns these guys focus on some strange form of technology.
Do you guys have these in europe? :lol: :lol:
Not from Europe, but this reminds me of a day recently when I was driving my daughter to school. I passed a house that looked like it'd been built during the Johnson administration and last painted during the Nixon administration - you know the sort of place. Sagging in the middle, a "Shotgun shack" type of house, loads of dead plants in coffee cans and broken pots on the front porch and the inevitable "NO TRESPASSING" sign nailed to one of the front porch posts...
Anyway, two guys were hauling old, yellowed PCs out to the curb - there was already a considerable pile of monitors, a desk (which looked like it had originally cost more than the house, but was now just as dilapidated), stacks of PC towers...
Same day, later on my way home I saw a towered A1200 (!!!) sitting out by the curb - no side panel on the case, and it was right at a red light so I got a good look inside. Had it not been pouring rain I would've grabbed it and thrown it in the car and had my first HW amiga in about twelve years. However, as it was raining pretty hard and the inside of the system looked totally trashed, I didn't bother.
