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| 35062 | 2002-02-09 11:32:00 | Was just reading Billy's laptop posting and it got me thinking about the old computers still running out there...... I have a 286 here that still runs complete with a 20meg HDD and is network ready, I cant remember how much memory but I know it is less than 1meg....... So what else is still out there???? |
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| 35063 | 2002-02-09 20:54:00 | Let me think... I have an old 8086, with a 10 or 20mb HDD and 640kb RAM - has dip switches on the front to tell it how much RAM its got. It still goes really well, although I haven't really used it lately. I did have an earlier model (I think the 8088) but I don't know where it is anymore (how do you lose a whole computer!!!???) |
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| 35064 | 2002-02-09 22:13:00 | I have a commodore 64 with a vt100 terminal connected via a 9600 baud serial connection to the internet. No I don't actually, I think you're all sick! Make a boat anchor outta that old crap! :-) |
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| 35065 | 2002-02-09 23:18:00 | Uhmm I got a BBC Micro and a Sinclair ZX81 complete with 16k expansion kit. And a NEC 286 'Portable' ie mains powered LCD mono screen 10meg hard drive and 1 meg of ram. ==Orac== |
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| 35066 | 2002-02-09 23:25:00 | Tazzie A major South Island Hospital is still running a PDP11 (I think I got that right) to control their building services. In response to Blah Blah, if nobody preserved old technology we would lose important history. My Compaq was the first notebook I ever purchased and was state of the art at the time. I recently restored a 1960's Sanyo 8' portable television that I think was probably the first all-transistor portable TV ever made. The only non-solid state component were the EHT rectifier and the picture tube. All other devices were germanium which make the achievement worthy of note and worthy of preservation. It goes very well after the rebuild and is eminently watchable. Cheers Billy 8-{) |
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| 35067 | 2002-02-09 23:43:00 | Good on you Billy, I still have in restored working order my grandmas' 1932 Echo TRF cathedral style radio, one of the very first to use Bakelite as the case material. It's only had 2 valve replacements since 1932, one was in about 1942 or '43, and the other about 9 years ago. No, dont anyone ask if I want to sell it. |
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| 35068 | 2002-02-10 01:26:00 | My grandfather brought a Portable TV back from Japan many years ago, probably the same as the one you mentioned restoring Billy. I remember watching Saturday morning cartoons on it as a kid. Nifty litle thing that TV. Anyone remember wristwatch/calculators, you were destined to be a computer geek if you had one of those. I didnt have one but I did have a ZX81 complete with hot foil printer and stick on keyboard. Damn, I must be getting old :-) |
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| 35069 | 2002-02-10 02:08:00 | I've got a PDP11/34 (256kB)which worked the last time I powered it up. I've got a microvax II (13MB), which I am going to run netBSD on -- I've already jumpered a 5.25 floppy to work on it and booted the install floppy. So it will go, when I wire it into my Thickwire ethernet to download the CD. I've got a Sun3 (2 Meg) --have to get the network booting setup on one of my Linux boxes to make that go. I've got a nice little word processor somewhere (NEC I think), which boots DOS (version 1) from a rom, and starts WordStar (writese to a 720k 3.5' floppy). A nice little Hyundai Novell workstation (a diskless XT, with onboard ethernet and boot rom -- to download from a Novell server). I've got Spectrum, ZX81, Amiga 500, BBC B, Acorn 4000, Apple Plus, an Osborne portable. There are a couple of S100 z80s, and a 12' Philips monitor I built from a kit. I collect computers and other technology. |
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| 35070 | 2002-02-10 03:29:00 | DAMN!!! and here was me thinking my 486 was dated!!! | Guest (0) | ||
| 35071 | 2002-02-10 04:58:00 | I've got an Atari 64 (the one before the XE model) with a 5 1/4' disk drive and a heap of software if you want it. I think it still all works. There might still be a Atari 2600 games console too if you are a keen collector. Just let me know where to send it. Drop me a line at ray.anderson@wintec.ac.nz if you want it. | Guest (0) | ||
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