4 Dec
2013
4 Dec
'13
5:09 a.m.
I have adopted the Amiga 3000. I will love it and squeeze it and call it George. My folks
got me an Amiga 1000 just before I started college in 1986, and I happily used it for a
several years before I upgraded to a Sun 3/60. I still have the A1000, and cleaning it up
and getting it working again is on my long list of projects. This A3000 is really cool,
because I lost touch with the Amiga world beyond the A1000/A2000/A500 era.
I also grabbed the C128 with thoughts of giving it away in the gift exchange at my
company's upcoming holiday party, but I think I'll give away a TRS-80 Model 100
there instead since it's small and self-contained. I have no experience with Commodore
stuff other than the Amiga family, so I can learn about it with the C128. But if another
local collector really lusts after that C128, I'm not too attached to it yet and I
wouldn't mind passing it along after I play with it briefly.
Ok, while we're giving the gift of retrocomputing, I have something else to offer: I
have a Wyse 350 color dumb terminal that is free to a loving home. I've powered it up
and fiddled with it in local mode; it works, but I think it may have some bouncy keys. It
includes a manual. Similar terms apply:
* Not for resale! Grab it if you have a use for it.
* Local pick-up, either in Irvine, CA (I work there on weekdays) or in Riverside, CA on
weekends (we can meet at my local Starbucks).
I also have a DEC VT240 which I will want to unload once I take a stab at fixing its dead
monitor, but I'm holding it for ransom in trade for other DEC stuff for my PDP-11
project. ;)
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Mark J. Blair, NF6X <nf6x at nf6x.net>
http://www.nf6x.net/