Re: OT: For computer nerds of the 80s

On Wed, 16 Apr 2008 18:50:15 -0700 (PDT), Diesel Damo
<Diesel_4WD@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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><sigh> I *wish* I kept all my old computers. 

You don't. Trust me on this. You really don't, unless you've got a
spare warehouse in the back yard. Otherwise they just clutter the crap
out of the place. I conducted a massive purge a few months ago;
offloaded a stack of old hardware to a recycling place out in
Wetherill Park. It was a pity to see some of them go, but at the same
time it was a relief to be rid of the clutter.

>Started with a Tandy
>TRS-80 4KB, then the same again but with 16KB. I remember programming
>the game Frogger into it when I was 10. That about maxed out it's
>potential.

I still have a Dick Smih System 80; 16k with built in cassette tape
deck. That reached its limits pretty quickly too.

>If I could choose just one of my old computers to have back, it would
>be my highly modded 486. Ran even the oldest of PC games and still
>fast enough to run some more modern(ish) ones.

Meh, I don't think that I miss any of my old Wintel PC's. All of them
were frustrating me performance-wise by the end of their lives.

Aside from the System 80 (which avoided the purge mainly because it's
buried under the bed somewhere), the only non-functional one I held on
to was the Amiga 500. Couldn't bring myself to let that one go.