You wanna collect computers? The thrift stores are
full of 386s and 486s
that you can get for next to nothing! Truck loads of em go in the landfill
every single day. Nooooo... You wanna collect fancy computers with blinken
lights and all kinda of cool stuff that noone else has and you expect to
get it for nothing.
Get over it!
Good point! I *do* collect the 386s and 486s... not particularly as
collector's items -- they're still too common. However, they still are
useful computers, so I clean them up, put Linux on them, and give them a
good home in my basement. Even if they takee a while, they're still useful
for
Distributed.Net and SETI@HOME stuff... besides, they're great to drop
a few 100 meg HDs into and mount over NFS.
As a fairly new collector, I gotta say, you guys are
spoiled. No-one ever
gave me an ALTAIR and I still love the hobby.
Some here. I have been given a great deal of my stuff... 2 TRS-80Cocos,
Atari 800, C64s (oodles), an Amiga 2000 (great machine!) and a few 386s...
amoungst lots of parts.
Kevin