On Mon, 2005-06-20 22:53:12 +1000, river <river at zip.com.au> wrote: I guess I'm more one of the "specialised" guys, but things evolve over time. My preferred architecture changed several times during the last years (be it small things like C64, going over to Alpha, Sparc32, PA-RISC1.1, DECstations, SGI stuff, now it's VAXen running Linux). My general *interest* is in all kind of all machines, but due to space requirements (and available free time) I'm forced to focus myself. Though, I'd *love* to work with old computers (like in a museum) all the day, but that's most probably kinda unrealistic... I usually keep my old stuff around, but don't use it all that much. Though, I'd *love* to show it off publically, like another guy does. (He's opening his little data centre these days, look at http://www.vaxman.de/my_machines/computer_room/invitation.html . This link was sent to some DECUS mailing list). MfG, JBG -- Jan-Benedict Glaw jbglaw at lug-owl.de . +49-172-7608481 _ O _ "Eine Freie Meinung in einem Freien Kopf | Gegen Zensur | Gegen Krieg _ _ O fuer einen Freien Staat voll Freier B?rger" | im Internet! | im Irak! O O O ret = do_actions((curr | FREE_SPEECH) & ~(NEW_COPYRIGHT_LAW | DRM | TCPA));

In message <018b01c57597$053e2f00$0427083d at river> "river" <river at zip.com.au> wrote: Mm. Long unwrapped lines. So much for netiquette I guess. Not really. My main interest is in early-ish microcomputers and single-board machines. Stuff like the MOS (later Commodore) KIM-1, Synertek SYM-1 (aka SY-VIM-1) and Multitech Micro-Professor. I've also got a working Acorn BBC Master 128, with Viglen dual 5.25 disc drive, Epson LX80 printer, Microvitec Cub 653 monitor and a box of ROM cartridges. Oh, and it's got a 420MB Conner hard drive grafted onto the 1MHz Bus via an IDE adapter. Great fun to play with :) I wouldn't mind getting a Commodore 64 or C128, but there are other things I want more (a SYM-1 is really high on my wants list). I've got a Jupiter Ace here, but I need to get the motherboard back... Later. -- Phil. | Acorn Risc PC600 Mk3, SA202, 64MB, 6GB, philpem at philpem.me.uk | ViewFinder, 10BaseT Ethernet, 2-slice, http://www.philpem.me.uk/ | 48xCD, ARCINv6c IDE, SCSI ... If it wasn't for C, we would be using BASI, PASAL and OBOL!