[Duo2400] Re: Expanding the list -- not closing it.

[Bill Fox]

On Thursday, January 16, 2003, at 08:12 AM, Ivan Drucker wrote:

> I am not at all xenophobic about new list members. I just want to
> preserve the nature of the list. To me, it almost seems like less of a
> reach to expand it to other unusual Macs (PB 100, 20th Anniversary,
> MacTV, even Cube), because those are all products that stand apart from
> others, and the people who bought them (or are still using them)
> deliberately made the same sort of decisions we did when we bought our
> Duos or 2400's. (I know, we mainly bought our machines for size, but 
> I'm
> guessing at least some of us wouldn't have bought them if they weren't
> also elegantly and interestingly designed.)
>
> Anyway, I'm not advocating a position here, other than to say that if 
> the
> list DOES expand to include other products, I hope it can do so in a 
> way
> that preserves the collector's interest that we have here.

Ivan, also very good points. Of course, I am keeping my 2400c "forever" 
for the reasons you mention and I am fortunate to even have one for 
parts. Maybe the solution is to be tolerant of those of us who end up 
getting a 12" G4 and who may post things about it from time to time.

Bill