13 Feb
2013
13 Feb
'13
10:43 a.m.
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On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 9:40 AM PST Scott Quinn wrote:
About a year ago I got a Turbo XT clone (8-ish MHz V20,
I think, full memory). It needs a bit of work (HDD, looks like a cap blew on the floppy,
monitor needs a new CEE receptacle wired in), but it seems to power up fine.
I've been shoveling it around for the past year-plus, and this is the first time
I've even turned it on, which gets me wondering whether it's worth keeping or not,
especially when virtualized PCs are so easy to do. I have a 386 and Pentium with ISA
slots, so that's not a big deal. For those with old clones, what do you use them for,
or is it just mostly nostalgia?
Could you give more specifics. Date codes, possibly manufacturer? I'm not going to
delude myself thinking it could be a rare clone I've been searching for, and
that's not even my purpose for asking. Just curious how old it is. In my stash for
instance I have a rebadged AMT ATjr (they kept it in the rom screen, but IBM forced them
to change the name to AMTjr).
Yes it's mostly about sentiment I'm sure. Chances are there's some kid or
whoever who'd be happy to have it. Or a community college. I doubt there are still any
16 bit assembler courses being taught anywhere on planet earth, but it wasn't too long
ago there was. But then again perhaps the skills are still necessary to keep those quasi
mythical ten billion 80186 embedded apps running.