At 08:04 PM 12/4/2010 +0000, you wrote:
On Sat, 4 Dec 2010, Tony Duell wrote:
I wonder...
In particualr, I wonder what proportion of us now actively collect
machines that we either used when younger, or at least wanted to own when
younger.
That's how I got into transputers (and by means of transputers into
retro-computing). A friend of mine got a (non-functional) 128-core
Parsytec branded transputer machine from university surplus for $75, and
then proceeded to let it rot in his parents garage and not let anyone else
touch it... I was so jealous I went out and got all the relevant
books/hardware that I could get my hands on, at first in an effort to
convince him I could make it do something cool, and eventually in an
effort to do something cool with my own transputer hardware. I'm still
working on it (slowly) 10 years later.
Alexey
I think if I had time and money I'd collect all the TI-99/4A stuff I sold
to people when I was a dealer but never owned myself.
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