26 Nov
2006
26 Nov
'06
2:39 p.m.
--- Tony Duell <ard at p850ug1.demon.co.uk> wrote:
I'd be somewhat interested to know what people consider to be the 'stars'
of that collection, given that I don't have any of the traditional
rarities (like a striaght-8, or a Lisa, or even a ZX80).
Is there? Anything that strikes anyone as
particularly rare/valuable?
-tony
There's so much. There has to be considerable value there. You know if you did sell it, you could affored
an even bigger London house LOL LOL.
Yes, but what would I put in it :-)
And you don't program. VERY surprised you
don't feel
the urge to tap out even a little code. The C64 of all
I did not say I didn't program. I said I wasn't a programmer.
Let me explain. I can write code in a doxen languages if I have to,
including several assembly languages (heck, why else would I want to have
machines with toggle-switch panels ;-)). But I don't consider myself to
be a programmer, in the sense that I don't write good, efficient, code,
and I am not going, for example, to write an operating system or a
compiler, or...
Moreover, I don't really enjoy programming. I prefer to do the hardware.
Restore it, troubleshoot it, make add-ons, etc. Yes, I'll write a program
if that's what's needed to support whatever bit of hardware I'm working
on, but that's it.
things is a great platform to learn a little assembly.
There speaks somebody who's never used a Beeb. Seriously, if I wanted to
do 6502 assembly language, I'd nse a BBC micro. There's an assembler
built into the (excellent) BASIC.
And of course pc's. I could recommend some groovy
books too.
I am not sure why anyone would consider 80x86 assembly language to be
pleasant :-)
When do we get to look at some pictures of your
stash? You know I'm sure a local newspaper or magazine
That could be a problem. Yes, I have a cmaera. Darn it, I have many
cameras. But all are film-based (I will _consider_ a digital camera when
the quality of output exceeds that from my film cameras, which include
several 5*4" large format models). I also don't have a scanner, or
anything to link it to (there don't make scanners that link to PERQs :-))
would be interested in printing a piece about your
That I doubt (based on previous expereicens in a totally different area), in
any case I'd not really want a more precise location of this stuff to be
widely known...
"fascination". Do you use anything modern
(Pentium or
later) with any regularity?
Not really. There's an (old-ish) Pentium laptop here which is used for
one thing and one thing only. Running the diagnostic program for my
father's car. But the PC I am using at the moment is the PC/AT with 486
kludgeboard on the collection list.
-tony