Editing The Pen Addict 149/transcript (section)

== Pin Updates ==


'''Stephen Hackett:''' Of course. So we've got some mini topics slash follow-up here.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, yeah. So I wanted to get into some pin updates real quick. And one thing kind of sort of related to the pin show, when I was putting together these show notes, it made me realize that I forgot to address it last week. Matthew Morse, who's attending the pin show, asked me last week to answer the question why I prefer modern pins over vintage pins, as far as making purchases and what I use on a daily basis and what my collection contains the most of. It's mostly modern pins. And the reason why it should be pretty simple, and it really is, is that that's what's readily available right now. You know the quality is going to be good. You know the companies you buy it from are going to be able to support these products that they're selling you, that you're spending these hundreds of dollars on. But in relation to the pin show, that's where the vintage stuff comes in. So I always try to pick up one or two vintage pins at the Atlanta pin show because you can actually get them in your hands, and you can talk to the guy that, you know, rebuilt the pin if it's, like, really old and needed some work done to it. And so that's kind of the nuts and bolts of it. The vintage, you really need to get hands on. I'm almost never going to buy a vintage pin online unless I know its lineage and, like, really trust the guy who is selling it because you never know what you're going to get with a vintage pin. And being able to go physically touch them at somewhere like the Atlanta pin show is key to making a vintage pin purchase. So that's why most of the stuff I have at home and that I talk about online is modern because I generally know what I'm going to get out of the box with that. So I just wanted to point that out because that's kind of a big thing at the Atlanta pin show. It's more vintage stuff than modern stuff, although I think the numbers are skewing a little bit more. Modern's growing and vintage isn't shrinking. Just there's modern stuff creeping in, like some of our friends that come there, like Anderson Pins. They bring a crap ton of modern stuff, and there's a bunch of other vendors that do, too. So you'll be able to get both at the show, but vintage is definitely where it's at at a show like this.

'''Stephen Hackett:''' Yeah, makes sense to me.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, because, I mean, you're not buying your vintage Macs unless you do your research, right?

'''Stephen Hackett:''' Exactly. I mean, yeah.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Do you have the Mini Mac Museum room at your house?

'''Stephen Hackett:''' I do, yeah. We spoke about that on Analog this week.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Oh, I have it in the queue, so I'll listen to that tonight.

'''Stephen Hackett:''' Yeah, so we'll put a link to that in the show notes as well. I think it's true with whatever nerdery, whatever collection sort of thing you're into. It can be as much about where something comes from and how it got to you as what it is, right? The story of the thing can be just as important, but I totally get that.

'''Brad Dowdy:''' Yeah, we talk about these things, and you said it earlier on. There's so much crossover in just the general things that we do. It doesn't matter what the topic is or the thing that we're into is. We all kind of have the same feelings about the things that we're into. It's kind of cool. One pin that came out the last couple of weeks. See, now this is like connected. You know, like when the new MacBooks come out. We got a new Uniball Sino 307, Stephen. That's like a big deal for us.

'''Stephen Hackett:''' How much RAM does it have?