Fancy a Lisa?

On 7 March 2012 00:14, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote: No, it's not. Geoff is an old friend of mine & we spent a lot of time chatting & catching up for the first time in a few years at an event last month that I invited him to & gave him a free ticket to. (http://www.sfxweekender.com/ if you're curious.) He spent year amassing what he aimed to be a definitive collection of 1980s home computers. The SAM he bought from me, others from other friends. He lives in a large farmhouse in the countryside with a large barn full of old cars & motorbikes, too. :?) We discussed our computer collections. He told me he'd decided to get rid of his impressive collection because he'd realised that he was never playing with any of the machines, did not have enough time to do so and probably would not in the foreseeable future. He has (re)discovered new hobbies, such as long-distance bicycling - we are planning to do Land's End-to-John O'Groats this summer. (The longest distance it's possible to cover in Britain - going end-to-end.) I'm in the same boat. I decided to go for 16-bit machines, as there were just too many 8-bit ones: I have an Amiga, an Atari ST, a Sinclair QL, an Archimedes and a RISC PC, plus a couple of IBM PS/2s - a top-end Model 80 and a late model, a desktop model 55sx which I hope to get OS/2 running on at some point in time. Also several Sinclair Spectrums as they were the first computer I owned, and a couple of Amstrad PCWs. But I too never play with them, which is why I've started to get rid of stuff that I will never use like the Compukit. I shall also try to find good homes for all but one of the 68K Macs, all but one of the 3 SUN SPARC machines, all but one of the PowerPC Macs and so on. Unlike Geoff, I /do/ need the money, though! -- Liam Proven ? Profile: http://lproven.livejournal.com/profile Email: lproven at cix.co.uk ? GMail/G+/Twitter/Flickr/Facebook: lproven MSN: lproven at hotmail.com ? Skype/AIM/Yahoo/LinkedIn: liamproven Tel: +44 20-8685-0498 ? Cell: +44 7939-087884