13 Feb
2013
13 Feb
'13
9:40 a.m.
About a year ago I got a Turbo XT clone (8-ish MHz V20, I think, full memory). It needs a
bit of work (HDD, looks like a cap blew on the floppy, monitor needs a new CEE receptacle
wired in), but it seems to power up fine.
I've been shoveling it around for the past year-plus, and this is the first time
I've even turned it on, which gets me wondering whether it's worth keeping or not,
especially when virtualized PCs are so easy to do. I have a 386 and Pentium with ISA
slots, so that's not a big deal. For those with old clones, what do you use them for,
or is it just mostly nostalgia?