powering up older machines - is it safe?

[Tony Duell]

> To be honest, I enjoy the checking prior to use just as much as I do actually 
> using the system (I'm the same way with any vintage machinery - there's just 
> as much fun to be had in problem determination / fixing as there is in 
> actual use)

I'm inclined to agree with you. Quite often, once I've got a machine 
working (it'll boot the OS, run standard applications, all peripherals 
work, etc) i tend to lose interest in it and move on to some other 
project (which might well be an add-on board or peripheral for said 
machine, of course).

Tracking down a nastly logic fault is something I enjoy.

I don't really enjoy programming that much, and if I do want to write a 
program, I suspect I've got better tools on this (ancient) PC than on 
most of my classics...

-tony