Just from hanging around this list, you should be able
to pick up what
machines are most generally coveted/respected/common/whatever. However,
you should bring home everything _especially_ if you can't identify it.
Remember, the stuff you can't identify is most likely to be something cool
that all of us will then respect you for. Well, maybe not, but you'll get
more hours of fun from it ;)
Max, I would not recommend picking up just anything if you are a novice.
You may end up bringing home plenty of unintersting PC clones.
If it looks like a PC-clone (vertical metal strips for the expansion
slots at the back), then it's either a boring PC-clone or one of the
_very_ interesting Whitechapel machines :-)...
Seriously, PC-clones shouldn't be too hard to recogise, particularly if
you can look inside the case.
Well, considering some Apollo computers look like they were built into
a IBM-AT metal case, sometimes its not easy to distinguish something
important from a PC clone.
-Lawrence LeMay