27 Jun
1997
27 Jun
'97
10:20 a.m.
going for a while. I don't know that Dr. Shoppa
using all that classic
DEC machinery at his Canadian university qualifies as doing "ordinary hom
applications", although I'm delighted to hear that the old junk is still
providing useful service (heck, at Hughes here, we have PDP-11s running
I have six all operational two get regular use. BEsides my CP/M systems
from before the flood.
>modern MAC or PC, they have NO idea what is bieng
missed. web pages in fu
>photo quality color, realistic games, PPP connections, Realaudio etc. I a
Well, much of this I used to do back around '85 using microvax in color with
a 1280x1024 19" screen! Asa to much of the other stuff it's all hardware
much of which saw it origins on s100, Q and other busses.
Allison
27 Jun
27 Jun
5:29 a.m.
Nearly every machine I have gets a regular workout, though other than the
Amiga's and the newer PC, none of them are really used for anything other than
just messing around with. I have been known to use both the Atari-ST and
C-128D for telecom duties, as well as using the Atari-ST as a VT-100 terminal
connected to one of the 3 serial ports on my Amiga 3000, as well as using a
DigiView Gold on the Amiga 1000 for the occasional video capture. Otherwise,
I mainly use them for games and for dabbling in the different versions of
BASIC. In fact tonight I fired up both the ADAM and one of the TI-99/4A's for
a bit.
All in all, these systems are every bit as useful as the day the came out,
if not more so since a lot of them have things such as SCSI and IDE interfaces
available for them that the original designers didn't even dream of.
Jeff jeffh(a)unix.aardvarkol.com
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6:17 p.m.
Well, I guess I should add my bit to this thread. (I've been waiting for
the appropriate time to tell this story :-) First, I have to admit that
my two main computers are an Alpha 166 and a K5-133 both running Linux.
I don't use my classics on a daily basis, but they do come in handy...
In order to feed myself, I maintain several web-servers, one of which is
connected via a 128k dedicated isdn line. About 6 months ago I came home
from working on this machine, and tried to pull my mail
off of it. It was
then I realized that I had accidentally brought down the isdn
link. Well,
I was prepared for this... I had an analog modem on a dial-up line into
this machine for just this type of problem. Unfortunately though, I had
recently got ADSL internet into my home (Comes into my ethernet) and had
got rid of my modem. I still had an external 14.4 modem hooked it up to
my Apple //e, though. I quickly used it to dial into the server to bring
it back up. So yes, I do use my classic machines--not on a daily basis,
but that Apple saved me a trip.
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