14 Mar
1997
14 Mar
'97
1:49 a.m.
It was thus said that the Great Ronald T Kneusel once stated:
Greetings all!
50 already? Wow, great!
My name is Ron Kneusel and I'm glad to see I'm not the only one who
thinks playing with these classic machines is fun!
My name is Sean. (pauses for cries of "Hi, Sean!" to die down). I have a
problem. I ... I collect old computers.
I'll do a quick run-down of what I have (to see if
others have them and
wish to talk about them):
Heathkit H89, Kaypro II, Kaypro 2, SWTPc S/09 6809 system, Apple II+,
Apple IIe, Atari 400, Atari 800XL (dead), T/S 1000 (bad keyboard), TRS-80
PC-2, Mac Plus, Mac SE
Some questions for y'all..
1. Anyone else have a SWTPc S/09 system? If so, I'd really like to hear
from you!
Is that anything like OS-9?
3. I, too, am interested in learning how to remove the
marker from these
machines.
Has anyone tried Windex? Or empying the case and cleaning it with warm
water and soap?
5. Do you actually _use_ your machines or do you
simply collect them
(which is just fine! I'm curious to see how people use them)
I try to use the machines I have, and my big project right now is to
implement my own OS for them. Most of my machines (with the exception of
three) are in good working condition. One needs a replacement harddrive
(although getting VMS 4.7 on another drive might be a problem), another
needs a new monitor (proprietary I suspect) and the third one I still need
to examine (I suspect it still works, although the case is in poor
codition).
-spc (Software hacker)