7 Jul
2005
7 Jul
'05
5:56 a.m.
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From: "Vintage Computer Festival" <vcf at siconic.com To: "General Discussion: On-Topic and
Off-Topic Posts"
<cctalk at classiccmp.org Sent: Thursday, July
07, 2005 12:00 AM
Subject: Re: WOW!!!! $15k DEC PDP-8 CLASSIC MINICOMPUTER SYSTEM DIGITAL PDP8
On Wed, 6 Jul 2005, Scott Stevens wrote:
Festival
Believe me, a day will probably come when people
who are in their
twenties now will wax nostalgic on that old Leading Edge or Packard Bell
clone they started out on as a little kid, and want one just like it.
And most of them will have been melted down.
I've got each in my collection ;)
I'm not saying they're rare or anything, but I've hardly seen any 286 or
386 computers come through my warehouse in the past few months. The
trickle has definitely slowed down. If you think you might have a need
for a 286 or 386 in the future, you should probably be wanting to find a
nice representative system right around now.
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Leading Edge and Packard Bells always sucked (my first PC was a new 286
Packard Bell). I did always want a 386 Gateway desktop case, those looked
nice. The high end Northgates and Everex machines looked nice (could be 486
era).