I guess I don't collect so much as use. I'm getting into "trailing edge"
computing (ie old 8 and 16 bit computers) because they solve problems for
me as well as making me smile and remember the good old days. As an example,
my father has been using a laser 128 (apple2e clone) since it was new to do
his word processing. I am currently putting him together an apple2gs system
so he can still do his word processing as well as having a graphical web
browser, and a system fast enough to support a modern modem so I can get him
on the net. He does research in geniology, so this will be valuable to him.
Also, I have an hplx200 palmtop. it is essentially an 8088 xt in a package
the size of two cassette tape boxes end to end. I find myself using
software from the mid to late 80s constantly to live in its small memory
map and CGA screen.
It also does warm the cockles of my heart that some brilliant hack that someone
came up with a decade ago to work within the hardware constraints of the day
and do something insanely useful - will STILL be useful to me. Moreso because
if it's a DOS thing I can carry the computer in my pocket.
--
Jim Strickland
jim_at_calico.litterbox.com
--
By Caffeine alone my mind is set in motion.
Through beans of java thoughts acquire speed, the hands acquire shakes.
The shakes become a warning - I am in control of my addiction!
By Caffeine alone my mind is set in motion.
Adapted from the Mentat chant of _Dune_
Received on Thu Apr 10 1997 - 14:56:31 BST