The use of old computers

From: Fredrik Ekman <ekman_at_lysator.liu.se>
Date: Fri Mar 14 09:58:45 1997

> 5. Do you actually _use_ your machines or do you simply collect them
> (which is just fine! I'm curious to see how people use them)

I like to use my machines. After all, that's what they were made for. The
problem is that I don't have room for them all so I can only set up one or
two at a time. I like to play classic games on them, and sometimes I do
some programming.

I have a portable Sord IS-11 from 1984, about the same size as the
smallest modern lap-tops, with built-in software in ROM, which I intend to
use for word processing in my work (I'm a part-time freelance computer
journalist) as soon as I can build a cable to connect it with my PC.

  /F

PS. I mostly collect Commodore and Sord computers, although I am
interested in almost anything from the eighties.
Received on Fri Mar 14 1997 - 09:58:45 GMT