2 Dec
1997
2 Dec
'97
11:36 a.m.
Due to massive amounts of caffeine & sleep deprivation, Allison J Parent said:
< A 68040 -based machine is not that old, maybe a
bit under 10 years. What I
< was wondering is whether or not there is any objective advantage of old
< machines to new ones. F.E. one could get an old IBM mini (System/3X) for
< little or no money, but is there anything doable on it that is
impossible t
< do on a W****** 95 machine?
Most older machines that was an expectation.
After all they were expensive. ;-)
Funny... My CoCo can support multiple users, and it wasn't expensive at
all... $200 for the machine, $300 for the floppy drive, $129 for OS-9 and
$50 for the 13" color TV I bought at a garage sale... still cheaper than an
single-user IBM box at the time, even when you add the $50.00 RS-232 cart
and the $139 multi-pak so I could connect at up to 19200 bps with my Tandy
200...
Speaking of my T200, it can turn itself on and off... can a Wintel box do
that??? ;-)
Classic computers are like Grandparents -- they spoil ya!
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
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Programmer, NorthernWay | information on their candy bar wrappers
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