Subj : Re: What's in your attic?
To   : All
From : Bucko
Date : Mon Oct 09 2023 18:09:12

On 09 Oct 2023, nelgin said the following...
 
 ne> Figuratively speaking anyway.
 ne> 
 ne> I had a BBC Micro with sideways ram with built in real time clock, AMX
 ne> mouse, floppy drive, 10mb hard drive and controller, modem, 100's of
 ne> floppy discs, all sorts of ROMs, JP101 sparkjet printer...all gone to
 ne> the tip.

I feel for you as I did the same thing, back in 2015, I was moving to a new home and since I was only allowed in the place once before purchase I felt I was downsizing so my garage was filled with old computers. I had every Intel PC from XT up to P4 (1 of each, all working) probably a dozen 5.25 floppy drives, 6 or 7 3.5 floppies, about 7 modems ranging from 1200 baud up to 56k (the prized possession was the USR v.Everything) a Lt Kernal Hard Drive for the C64 with Multiplexer (the HD was dead) an Amiga 500 with Hard drive and extra Ram. A couple of Commodore Monitors, and a ton of misc hardware, My BBS backup tapes along with a external tape drive (that worked). Quite a bit, today with Retro selling high, All of this stuff would probably be worth in the area of about $3k!!! I gave all the Commodore and Amiga stuff away for free to a guy who lived near by at the time, and threw all of the PC stuff away.. 

Fast forward to 2018, I get the BBS bug again, go looking for my v.Everything, because I wanted to offer dialup on my new BBS, it's gone, I wanted to run said BBS on a backup machine, P4, Gone! I get the bug to start running my Commodore BBS and an Amiga BBS (I wanted a BBS for every OS I ever used) all of that stuff GONE! Granted, I did do the things I wanted, I run those boards but in emulation.. I did buy a couple of C64's to run a BBS replaced the Lt Kernal HD with a Clone, started to rebuild my retro stash. BUT I still miss all of my old stuff, the sad part about this all? I didn't downsize after all.. I upsized and have a FULL room for storage!!!!

Moral of the story. DON'T THROW ANYTHING OUT!!

Al

.... A book in the hand is worth two on the shelf!

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