In article <[email protected]>
[email protected] (J. Lower) writes:
> I don't hang in this group because the OS Holy Wars grew tiresome (for me)
> a decade ago but thought y'all might enjoy this.
>
> For the last couple years I've been building and refining my own version
> of the Macquarium (and Lisaquarium, monitoraquarium, etc). I get lots of
> email from folks who've seen them on my web pages and nearly all are
> positive and appreciative of my efforts to give a second life to these old
> computers.
>
> But every so often some joker writes something to the effect that "it's
> the best use for a Mac" - always seeming to think that they're being
> original or clever. My response has always been that PC's don't even make
> good aquaria but I've always wondered if there wasn't some use for all
> those old XTs.
>
> I finally have it. Sometime Sunday night I'll put up a page featuring the
> world's first (AFAIK) IBM PC Cat Litterbox. Construction is complete and
> all I really need now are some video frames of my cat enjoying his new
> toilet to put on the web page. This is something that (apparently) can't
> be rushed but the camcorder is on the tripod and he's gotta go sometime...
>
> The URL will is
>
> http://www.ionet.net/~jlower/catbox/xtbox.html
>
> and there will be a link from my main Macquarium site at
>
> http://www.ionet.net/~jlower/aquarium.html
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Eric Bennett ( [email protected] ; http://www.pobox.com/~ericb )
Sixty-seven percent of the doctors surveyed preferred X to Y. (Jones
couldn't be persauded.)
-John Allen Paulos