[P1] 20GB of good news

[Linda Van Thiel]

On Friday, January 31, 2003, at 06:46  AM, Small Moose Ltd wrote:

> On 31/1/03 2:03 am, "Linda Van Thiel" <lvt at mac.com> wrote:
>
>> She thought I was
>> Nutts!  But I read about the SE box etc that sold on eBay for $500.
>
> Now that's some Mac addiction. I have kept the boxes and styrofoams 
> that
> came with out iMac and iBook. Partly because they are good boxes to 
> store my
> Commodore Amiga stuff, and mostly because I've never seen a computer 
> come in
> its own custom coloured box box before.
>
> If you go into any PC retail outlet, all the PC's come in the standard 
> brown
> cardboard. The Mac's are different. I've just had a flashback to when 
> I was
> sitting in the library at University next to the window on a sunny 
> day, and
> a couple of techs were strolling past below carrying brand new iMac's 
> in
> their flashy boxes. I remember thinking how cool and exclusive they 
> looked.
> Those Macs went to the design department I believe, while the rest of 
> us had
> our normal PC's. Bah!

Now here's a box collection: (scroll down to see 5/5)

http://www.cube-zone.com/desks10.html

I really should take a picture of mine too.  Not quite as impressive at 
the moment as I tend to put the smaller peripherals boxes inside the 
larger puter boxes to save space!

The first time my office was broken into and my eMate stolen, the thief 
actually dragged down my handspring box thinking there might be 
something in it.  He also bled all over my office (broke a 6x18 wire 
glass window) and broke into the biology dissection labs down the hall 
too.  He tried cutting the cables holding the tv-vcr-dvd systems 
together - used a scissors and scalpel - hahaha.  It is amazing how 
strong even those thin cables are, hardly bigger than a headphone wire!

Linda
SE MI