16 Jun
2004
16 Jun
'04
2:26 p.m.
Well if you guys started collecting back in 97-98 you
probably got quite a
few expensive computers for next to nothing,
Yep! [grinning]
which is allot harder to do
today when there are more people in the hobby. I didn't start until 3 or so
years ago, but I don't go for the rarities anyway.
On the flip side, for those os us that have been collecting for a long
time (for me, it's almost 20 years since I bought a PDP-8/S of $5.00
[grinning, again]), we are cursed by all of the machines we culd have had,
but passed up (like an old Amdahl [not grinning]).
P.S. Anybody here get into the Computer Chronicles TV
show from the 80's and
90's? There is an ftp site that has tons of episodes in mpeg format (1gb per
30 mins or so). I grabbed a few so far and they bring back the memories I
had of watching the PBS show in the 80's.
A neat show. I remember a computer show from the early 1980s that would
air on the PBS educational stations (channel 20 in Chicago - "lots of
watch TV for college credit" shows from the Annenburg CPB Project) quite a
bit that was sort of an introduction to data processing. Each show would
focus on one topic, just as a textbook would. VERY cool, as there would be
lots of shots of early 80s computer rooms. PCs were just getting into the
game (note: real PCs, not PeeCees), so the micros in the show were
classics. Lots of mini and mainframe goodies, even a show on
supercomputers.
I can not remember the name of the show, and I doubt anyone still shows
it.
William Donzelli
aw288(a)osfn.org