24 Feb
2013
24 Feb
'13
8:44 p.m.
On 25/02/2013 5:07 p.m., Chris Tofu wrote:
Don't know who posted what's above yours.
Other then that, are you an
enthusiast, or just here for curiosity? There's roughly 2 camps here -
those that collect and use very little, and those that actually use
their old equipment regularly, and may even collect. It's an
interesting unit, just wanted some discussion of it. Needless to say
it's rarely seen on this side of the puddle. Otherwise how do you feel
about Google/Goozitzu these days? Welcome to the list.
I collect and use - but mostly the "use" comes from restoring other
machines or playing old games. VCForum members will know me as
"SpidersWeb" and most of my collection is PC based.
I have a room dedicated to the old machines (I need to buy another three
desks, but almost finished), a workdesk for repair in another room, and
a dry garage to help with storage.
Non-PC gear would be an Amiga 2000, Commodore 64C, Commodore VIC20,
Acorn A4000 (although both the Commodore's are in the to-be-repaired
line up).
The A4000 needed a slightly quicker CPU in my opinion and expansion was
kind of limited until the RISC PC era with the 'slices' business - but
Acorn/BBC history in education and a respectable price made it quite
attractive to people like my parents in 1992 (we still had
BBC/Acorn-only stores at that time). It's also capable of emulating an
8088 under software but I remember that being a bit slow. Mine has the
4Mb RAM upgrade, 10BaseT network adaptor, and the standard 80Mb Conner
IDE and 3.5 floppy.