22 May
1998
22 May
'98
3:28 p.m.
Tony Duell wrote:
So what people are saying is that if you find one with all 4 rows of 16K
chips fitted, it becomes more valuable if 3 of the rows are pulled?
Strange...
This is the sort of thing which will make me leave the computer
collecting world, alas. I can remember when computer collecting was fun -
you went to a radio rally, or to the local(ish) junk shop and came home
with a pile of bits. Fiddled with them, got them working, hacked about a
bit, modified things a bit, and learnt a lot. Now, if we're going to have
high-priced machines for no good reason, then I'm outa here...
Me too. I collect computers (well, it wasn't the original plan, but
I have this trouble throwing things away and eventually I decided I
might as well start filling some of the gaps), not collectibles. If
the machines I want are "collector's items" I'll stop looking for
them -- I hadn't been in the market for Apples or Altairs anyway --
but there are a few Tandy/Radio Shack machines I really want, that
being the line with the gaps -- I've got representatives of every
product line except for the PC compatibles that I don't care about --
hell, I do have a 1000/TL2, but I still don't care about it -- I
mostly use it as lab rat to test viruses -- amazing how overblown the
news is about viruses, considering how few of them work.
--
Ward Griffiths
They say that politics makes strange bedfellows.
Of course, the main reason they cuddle up is to screw somebody else.
Michael Flynn, _Rogue Star_
>I hope that "16K" means
"16/64K model" as opposed to "actually equipped with
>16K of memory."
Yup, came with 16k soldered down and room to add DRAM up to a whopping 64k.