Subj : Re: Housekeeping
To   : claw
From : tassiebob
Date : Tue Jul 05 2022 20:15:22

 cl> Well I'm sure there are a ton a retro folks right here.  You might have
 cl> missed the dumpster diving conversation that was going on for a couple
 cl> months.  What are you in to?

I caught the end of that one - was an interesting read.

I guess my favourite retro machines are the BBC's, for no other reason than they are what we had at school and what I used most back then.

These days I'm interested in exploring pretty much anything 8-bit - I picked up an SVI-328 maybe 6 months back and have had some fun poking around with that.  I have a C64 I'm just about to play with - never had one as a kid - just fixing the PSU on that one.  Once it's working I'll have to see if one of the floppy drives works...

Beyond 8-bits I've got a couple of Atari ST's and an Amiga 500.

One day I'll find an old XT or AT - might even build something new from one of the homebrew PC projects.  I do have a homebrew CP/M machine I must finish putting in a case.

Like most people I expect, I regret tossing away the various machines I had in my earlier years.  The Acorn Electron, the Osborne Executive, the Unitron 2200 (Apple 2 clone), the TRS-80, the XT, the various 286/386/486's...  My brother's Amiga 1000 with sidecar (that he got rid of)...  There's probably a couple more I've forgotten.

Of course there's a bunch of machines I'll acquire as money permits - TI99/4A is oddly interesting to me, as are the Australian Microbee's, an Apple ][GS (we had one at college and it interested me for some reason), a C128 is on the list, as is an Acorn Electron, maybe a Commodore PET (not that common around here), and any of the older CP/M machines.  An Acorn Archimedes would be a nice addition too.  One day :-)

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