Re: OT: What do you do with your old computers?

docdwarf@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
>
> This reminds me of a put-it-together-yourself file cabinet I helped a
> physician I know assemble back in the early 1990s.  This stuff has
> improved since then and now it's more difficult to attach part B to
> part D instead of hooking it to part C, where it belongs... and we'd
> knock a few pieces together, realise we'd done the wrong ones, take
> it apart, set it aright...
>
> ... all in all it took us about three hours.  Sipping our Pilsner
> Urquels and gazing upon the finished product the doctor mused 'You
> know... between the cost of your time and mine that is, per cubic
> inch, probably the most expensive piece of furniture in this house.'
>

Know what you mean. I once worked in a pathology lab. The doc was a genius

but scientific publications would accept his papers (because he was just
an 
ordinary trash M.D., not a pathologist). He hired me to do the routine lab

tests so he could run a big, four-color, printing press to publish his own

damn journal!

For example, he developed a little kit with about three reagents for EMTs 
that could discriminate between some 300 common poisons using a few drops
of 
bodily fluid (plasma, saliva, etc.). Oh, it would only give gross 
approximations (heavy metal, opiate, etc.), but more than enough for first

aid. Nobody would buy the thing until it was written up in a "Journal."