13 Feb
2013
13 Feb
'13
9:40 a.m.
About a year ago I got a Turbo XT clone (8-ish MHz V20, I think, full memory). It needs a
bit of work (HDD, looks like a cap blew on the floppy, monitor needs a new CEE receptacle
wired in), but it seems to power up fine.
I've been shoveling it around for the past year-plus, and this is the first time
I've even turned it on, which gets me wondering whether it's worth keeping or not,
especially when virtualized PCs are so easy to do. I have a 386 and Pentium with ISA
slots, so that's not a big deal. For those with old clones, what do you use them for,
or is it just mostly nostalgia?
13 Feb
13 Feb
10:30 a.m.
I think I still have one about like that. Nostalgia, it hasn't been
touched in close to 20 years.
I actually need to see about setting up a couple VM's for accessing
legacy data CD's. I do not want to need to maintain hardware for
this purpose!
Zane
At 12:40 PM -0500 2/13/13, Scott Quinn wrote:
About a year ago I got a Turbo XT clone (8-ish MHz V20,
I think,
full memory). It needs a bit of work (HDD, looks like a cap blew on
the floppy, monitor needs a new CEE receptacle wired in), but it
seems to power up fine.
I've been shoveling it around for the past year-plus, and this is
the first time I've even turned it on, which gets me wondering
whether it's worth keeping or not, especially when virtualized PCs
are so easy to do. I have a 386 and Pentium with ISA slots, so
that's not a big deal. For those with old clones, what do you use
them for, or is it just mostly nostalgia?
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3:58 p.m.
Good for holding a door open, particularly if the underside of the door
has too little, or too much, clearance to use a ZX80 wedge.
Always easier to manipulate the hardware for reading alien disks (I've
done a few).
--
Grumpy Ol' Fred cisin at xenosoft.com
4:45 p.m.
New subject: Macintosh 128K in Portland, Cheap
If anyone wants to make some money and is in the Portland (OR) area, this
just popped up on craigslist:
http://portland.craigslist.org/wsc/sys/3578863734.html
They're asking $150.00 includes KB and mouse
If I was in town, I'de be tempted.
Jim.
11:05 a.m.
On 02/13/2013 09:40 AM, Scott Quinn wrote:
About a year ago I got a Turbo XT clone (8-ish MHz
V20, I think, full
memory). It needs a bit of work (HDD, looks like a cap blew on the
floppy, monitor needs a new CEE receptacle wired in), but it seems to
power up fine.
I've been shoveling it around for the past year-plus, and this is the
first time I've even turned it on, which gets me wondering whether
it's worth keeping or not, especially when virtualized PCs are so
easy to do. I have a 386 and Pentium with ISA slots, so that's not a
big deal. For those with old clones, what do you use them for, or is
it just mostly nostalgia?
Old hardware devices with drivers that were written during the days of
the PC XT. For example, I've got a Match Point PC disk card that needs
the slower CPU. So I keep a couple of the boxes around and they get
trotted out every so often. They both have VGA cards however--no way
I'm going to haul out an old monochrome or CGA monitor as well.
Both have NICs and are equipped with networking software, so file
transfer isn't a big deal.
--Chuck
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