12 Dec
2015
12 Dec
'15
noon
If I would have known!!! WOW I would have just read
more posts before I
posted my first post look at this mess... There is no reason for people
to be rude or disrespectful to new people like myself. I have never
joined a place like this I know now that it has been said 1000000000000
times to scroll down and put my text there all I wanted to do was talk
about my new Commodore 64's. Can we do that? I make a post about
creepy pastas and all I got was made fun of? Do yall not want new people
to join? I think I can learn a lot from here that's all I want to do!
There are many Computer geniuses on here that I can learn a lot from
that's what I'm interested in and I like Creepypasta's and I collect
Honda ATC 3wheelers. But can we get back on track with the Commodore 64?
Much love for the plastic micros from the 80s, at least with me! Some
people are into the larger DIGITAL Equipment Corp stuff (PDPs, Vaxes) and
other large systems. I used to be big into Unix workstation hardware,
including big ones so went up through lots of them until I hit the
mountaintop with Cray stuff. It's so heavy and no permanant place for it
so these days I prefer it when I can put 3 systems into a plastic tub.
I'm involved with a music and gaming festival (the music is mostly video
game music) and we've spawned a computer museum as a come-back side
project. This year I think there was about 32 to 34 systems out which
include classic Macintosh stuff (Something personally I'm not a fan of
outside of the case designs), a NeXT, some Atari ST, Atari 8 bit, Color
Computer 2 or 3, Apple II, Apple IIGS, 8088 IBM PC, 80286, 80386, 80486. I
think Mike had 2 of the later PCs (the 486es) on thinnet running Doom over
IPX/SPX.
Next year the computer museum space is around 3000 square feet and I think
they're going to bring more like 100 to 120 machines (not sure.) I've
offered them my Octane, Indigo, NeXT, Sun Voyager, Atari Mega 2, Atari
520ST (need a mouse), Atari TT030 (need a mouse), Amiga 500, (probably
hold bcak Amiga 600 it's so small it makes me nervous), C64, Dolch PAC
luggable PC w/ Gravis Ultrasound, and some other stuff. Gave away the
Model 4 TRS-80 but it should be coming. They've got a lot of the plastic
microcomputer stuff covered until you hit fringe stuff like Mattel
Aquarius and import machines. I did meet locals that import Russian and
other MSX clones but don't have solid enough contact information to get
any of it (might need to run an inverter to generate 50hz power and PAL
TVs for that stuff.)
Friends have all sorts of stuff, and some things might be coming like a
X68000 (for the Castlevania fans :-) and MSX and other fun things.
Anyways, where was I. Oh yea. Much love for the Micros, but different
people came up at different times. My only CPM box is a beautiful IMSAI
8080 -- which I keep covered. Still building the S100 CF card.
Check out the C64 SD adapters or the XA1541 if you haven't.
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Ethan O'Toole