strange Honeywell system - test-drb@ccmp.vtda.org

6 Feb 2013

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On Wed, Feb 6, 2013 7:24 AM PST Allison wrote:

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 On 02/05/2013 07:03 PM, Chris Tofu wrote:

 interesting if you live on the west coast

 somewhat less so when you live in New Jersey.
 especially when you have no knowledge of its innards. the seller speaks of the
possibility of it having a rare IBM processor. some people consider the 486 rare

I find that last statement funny. 
 There will always be people who "grew up" in different times and environments
who find different things interesting. I see no reason to disparage them. Sometimes you
just like something. I am most definitely not a DEC *minded* person. But I used to like
and kind of miss my old DEC 486 pizza.box. 

 And my statement was meant to be funny in case it seemed vague.

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 I have a small format (for 1990) 386sx/25 board I keep
for emergencies.
I have a SIIG box with a 386/16 for a router.
I have two Dell 486sx (486dx/66 without external cache) pizza boxes
and a coffee can of 286/386/486 chips I think I haven't tossed yet.

The 486 PCs and the 386 board  are saved as I need them to use for
ISA-8 and ISA-16 board hosts.  Other wise I consider them junk
and they will be tossed as junk if and when they die. 
 Heavens please get rid of some of that trash Allison! Just save me any multibus boards
you happen to have. 

 It's always nice hearing from Allison. And though she for the most part holds Intel
in contempt, I did actually hear her say some of my pseudos were on the cool side. 

...
 Allison 