Most used toys, was Re: The late, great TRS-80

My list is hardly esoteric, but here it is: TRS-80 Model 100 as my primary laptop. I use it for general writing (emails and such, exported over serial port), and quick-and-dirty BASIC solutions. It's also just plain fun to play games on. ;-) An Epson PX-8 (CP/M, 128k RAM wedge) was formerly my primary laptop, but I forsook it for the AA batteries and far more readable screen. Now, it's sadly my primary CP/M machine for when I want access to that realm again. An HP 200LX (formerly a 95LX) as my palmtop, for when I can't carry the laptop with me. I interchange between a Network General Sniffer (Compaq Portable/386 6MB/40MB, running Linux), a Mac Plus 4/40, and Mac SE 4/20 as simple network-enabled workstations that double as serial consoles to my more interesting boxes. Right now, there's a bog-standard 1992-vintage 486 in that spot, that I repaired and rebuilt "because I could". ;-) A DECstation 5000/120 (32MB/1GB, CD) MIPS machine, configured without the framebuffer, gets used as a TinyMUCK game server when I feel the need to sandbox some game code. A VAXstation 3100 m38 for running OpenVMS/VAX v7.2. (Truth be told, my VAX is a beautiful machine, architecturally speaking. I just haven't found the problem that it is the solution for, yet.) (Wait, I need a reason? ;-) My primary minicomputer is a Data General Eclipse MV7800/U with twin 16-port serial boards, a Cipher tape drive, and two Century Data Systems giant fixed disc drives. (I'd trade it in a heartbeat for a minicomputer that didn't require 40 amps to start up. As such, it sits unpowered since 1993 because I don't have the knowledge to wire up the dedicated power to it, and to test it properly) Anyone got a machine with a programmer's panel that wants to trade? ;-) Josef -- "I laugh because I dare not cry. This is a crazy world and the only way to enjoy it is to treat it as a joke." -- Hilda "Sharpie" Burroughs, "The Number of the Beast" by Robert A. Heinlein