What Classic Computer are All About - A Lovers View

I do not get bothered by this "boasting" I view this "This Weekend Haul" as a good reference point in which is how hard to find or easy to get as well as prices. I hauled in three compaqs recently. One is Deskpro 386 with either 287/386 coprocessor board version, both SLT laptop series, soon they will break the 1998/2000 year mark for 10 year limit. SLT 286 cost me 50 and SLT 386s/20 cost 120 with docking station. Planning to use them. My LTE 386s/20 is only 3 years away to 10 years in design only but only 4 years old since I bought it as discontnuined sale up for my use. My reasoning behind is I love them and it's quality, way it looked and operation. I have a IBM VGA 9" mono behind me is over 10 year old and still used as a bench monitor and nice thing, I babied it well to have no burn in on it, 150 bux *ouch!* used. Enough of this blathing...anyway, you got my idea. I buy them for quality even they're outragously outdated. The newer ones even Compaq and Toshibas, Sony is now showing QC problems and sunk down as well. Recently a association already issued several critations warning buyers not to buy certain models from them. Oh well. Back to subject. :) My electronic TTYs, Minicom 4 two of them are based on 8 bit microcontrollers and still speak bandot 5 bit via built in phone coupler. I use them for phone calls via relay services for hearing people otherwise, I do need relay if calling someone who has TTY on other end. Both of them are over 10 years old and still living. :) That shows 8 bitters stuff won't go away. :) Also one or few 8 bit microcontrollers are onboard Pathfinder and maybe on the rover on the Mars right now. A side note, 486 machines that came out in '89 will make to 10 years old limit too! What!? Just curious, what else besides 10yr limit rule, just to remind myself. :) Jason D.