18 Apr
2000
18 Apr
'00
4:22 p.m.
I've never seen a CompuPro ANYTHING I liked. However, there's no accounting
for taste.
You mustn't forget, BTW, that I'm not a collector, except in the sense that
I haven't thrown some things away because I remember what they cost me.
The S-100 stuff was pretty easy to deal with back when you could make a
living with that sort of thing. Though I found the INTEL boards for the
multibus-1 somewhat better designed, they were so much more costly, I
couldn't, in good conscience, recommend them if an S-100 board, otherwise
equivalent, cost 10% as much, as was often the case.
Of course, I have a real bunch of Multibus-1 stuff because it was always up
to the mark.
Dick
----- Original Message -----
From: <allisonp(a)world.std.com>
To: <classiccmp(a)classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 18, 2000 2:34 PM
Subject: Re: 8-bit IDE
> preference, however. If you want to run your IMSAI with an ESDI
interface,
If I had an IMSAI it would be restored. Hwoever I have two NS* Horizons
one virgin, teh other my 1978 unit hacked six ways from sunday mostly
during the winter of 1980, that in itself if art too.
> the MBEthernet, it's entirely up to you. It is, after all, YOUR
computer,
> not mine. I find it strange somehow, to see a
living room furnished in
> '70's Spanish style with a '50's danish-modern coffee table and a
strictly
To me a compupro crate is not anything but an empty room and has no style
other than good construction rules. What I choose to put in it should
have order "fung shui" as it were but that doesn't rule mixing old and new
if done sanely.
I can do that as I have multiples of many of the machines that are
actively hacked. Nothing is lost, knowledge is both preserved and
added to.
Allison