22 Jun
2010
22 Jun
'10
7:35 p.m.
I did not attend either but went to my local amateur radio clubs boot =
sale.
I picked up a DEC Multia for =A35.00. It was marked =A310.00 but when =
the guy
selling it said "It's not a PC" I offered =A35.00 and got it!
Nice!.
Reminds meof the time some years ago when I was going round a radio rally
and noticed a brown tower case with a monitor next to it. The seller said
'it doesn't run Windows' (which increased my interest...) and pulled one
of the borad to show 4 40 pin chips (which I correctly guessed were 2901s
or similar). I got the machine for a tenner. Only later did I realise I'd
bought a complete Xerox Daybreak :-)
So who had the better day? Me or those who went to
BP?
Or me, who spent the time investigating an interestign HP serial
interface module containing an 8048 microcotnroller and a Z80-SIO serial
chip...
-tony