6 Mar
2012
6 Mar
'12
8:35 p.m.
On 7 March 2012 00:14, Dave McGuire <mcguire at neurotica.com> wrote:
On 03/06/2012 05:26 PM, Roger Pugh wrote:
?I really hope that's not the reason. :-(
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!
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Same friend who is selling the SAM Coup? and the UK101 also has a Lisa
for sale:
http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/230756673113
By the way, yes, he will ship internationally, at cost.
And an Exidy Sorcerer...
He should be able to pay the mortgage this month with that lot he is
selling..