19 May
2016
19 May
'16
3:21 p.m.
On 19 May 2016, at 22:31, Swift Griggs <swiftgriggs at gmail.com> wrote:
Is Acorn kit available at all, Stateside? Growing up I was surrounded by it (parents both
teachers and Acorn owned the UK Ed. market in the 1980's).
I'm surprised I have relatively little of it now (just the A3000 and a very clean
Model B). I'd like a RISC PC but supply is thin on the ground here nowadays, it
appears the boat has sailed.
I have a Genesis (badged Megadrive here) and regularly fire it up - both my kids love
Psycho Pinball. I have a Saturn and GameGear in my collection, but they don't see much
action. Still use (and adore) my Dreamcast of course, bought from new.
-Austin.
On Thu, 19 May 2016, Austin Pass wrote:
systems I've neglected - lots of them not booted in 10 years or more.
Ouch. I'm thinking my oldest boot is going to be 6 years on my:
* Sega Genesis + 32X
* SNES (but I do play on the SupraBoy)
* Sun Ultra 60
* SGI Indy R4600/200
Actually, I'm just going to treat this as a service reminder and go do
some "spring cleaning" and actually test a few this week.
Quick check-over and they both booted just fine!
woot!
The systems I'm feeling really guilty over
neglecting are:
SGI Crimson VGX (skins perfect but needs some TLC before power-on)
Ohhh, pretty.
Maxed-out Acorn A3000 (my home-brew external SCSI
Podule needs
finishing)
I missed out on those, to my sorry.
-Swift