I don’t mean to but I lost one of my best friends partially this way :(
It’s hard to control sometimes
If I ever find someone who cares about communism/Unix/Plan 9/computer architecture (I see all these as deeply interconnected) as much as I do our power will be unstoppable
Edit: Thanks everyone for your replies and for sharing your experiences, it means a lot to me. I want to reply to everyone I just don’t know what to say lol
Ohh I’m sorry to hear they were kept in such poor condition. A lot of really cool hardware has suffered the same fate. I look at eBay or other similar places a lot for fun (rarely have the money to buy anything sadly) and the state of some of the listings there is just sad. Like rare hardware just covered in rust and dust cuz someone just stored it in a barn or something.
Yeahh, I’ve just made peace with the fact that I may have to spend a lot of time fixing whatever I buy at this point. But that can be fun too :3
Maybe instead of trying to find new floppy drives and stuff you could try transferring data over any serial ports on the machine or something. But I don’t know too much about 68k Macs (but I do have a few PowerPC macs hehe).
I’ve enjoyed chatting with you too! If you want maybe we could exchange instant messenger contacts in DMs or something.