How did you get started?

Same here, almost. Actually it started three years ago when someone "sold" me a C64 for the equivalent of 0.30 UKP (an ok price for a C64, I guess), but I didn't pay much attention to it at the time. Two years ago, the large BBS/sort-of-ISP I worked for bogged down by huge Atari vs. Amiga vs. Pc vs. Mac flamewars (then again, who isn't?). The more rational people decided to hold a contest and decide who has the best toy. So they organised an official demo show with judges from the BBS staff and users. I was with the owner and high guru of the system a few weeks before that and we were playing with his TI-99/4A and trying to decide whether his MC-10 was working or not. So we though `why not bring all our old machines to the demo show to give the PeeCee/Amiga folks a demo of what computing was before *they* came along?'. Well, in the end, we managed to gather around 15 machines, including a Kaypro 2 or II, rather rare in Europe, a (dead) Sinclair ZX-80 and other machines. That's when I (subconsciously, probably) got the idea of collecting as many old home micros as possible. The nostalgia trip was immense at the time. :-) Oh, I think that's when it occured to me to create information sheets about the various items at the show -- something listing specs and capabilities, so that the people who thought Computer == {PeeCee,Amiga} found out about the ZX-80's 1k chess program, etc. That idea was implemented as the Machine Room, my old hardware home page. Alexios PS: OBTW, if I remember correctly, the winner of the demo show was the PeeCee, with `Dope'. I'm not into demos, but that thing impressed me. PS2: I think I'm posting material againt the list's charter again. This mail mentions PCs at least three times. *LART* Ouch! *LART* Yow! --------------------------- ,o88,o888o,,o888o. ------------------------------- Alexios Chouchoulas '88 ,88' ,88' alexios(a)vennea.demon.co.uk The Unpronouncable One ,o88oooo88ooooo88oo, axc(a)dcs.ed.ac.uk