USING classic machines

Nearly every machine I have gets a regular workout, though other than the Amiga's and the newer PC, none of them are really used for anything other than just messing around with. I have been known to use both the Atari-ST and C-128D for telecom duties, as well as using the Atari-ST as a VT-100 terminal connected to one of the 3 serial ports on my Amiga 3000, as well as using a DigiView Gold on the Amiga 1000 for the occasional video capture. Otherwise, I mainly use them for games and for dabbling in the different versions of BASIC. In fact tonight I fired up both the ADAM and one of the TI-99/4A's for a bit. All in all, these systems are every bit as useful as the day the came out, if not more so since a lot of them have things such as SCSI and IDE interfaces available for them that the original designers didn't even dream of. Jeff jeffh(a)unix.aardvarkol.com -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- Amiga enthusiast and collector of early, classic microcomputers http://www.geocities.com/siliconvalley/lakes/6757