Demography?

From: Adam Jenkins <adam_at_merlin.net.au>
Date: Sun Mar 1 06:50:10 1998

My turn. :)

I'm a collector in Adelaide, South Australia - not the only one here, but
one of a very small number. I'm 28, and until very recently I was a
student, doin a Masters in Philosophy. (In case anyone cares, my thesis
concerns the ethical status of hypothetical artificial minds - basically
I'm looking at the criteria for ethical value employed with people and in
animal ethics, and working out whether that criteria can be met by an
artificial intelligence). As far as occupations go, I have a few (being
a typical long-term student) - I'm a welder, do some web page design,
some internet consultancy, Perl coding, teach ethics and critical
thinking to nurses, actually get paid to MOO, work occasionally as a
human guinea pig in medical tests and I am a professional Teddy Bear
artist. :) I've worked in a few other areas, but they'e the most
recent/current ones. Anything to pay for more computers.

I started collecting late last year, although I had wanted to for ages.
My first computer that I used was my uncle's Microbee - an Australian Z80
kit computer - but I rapidly moved to the TRS-80 Model 1 and Vic-20.
Last year I was offered a Lisa 2/5 to save it from being scrapped, so I
figured it was about time I went and picked up all the old computers I
wanted when I was younger. Mostly I only get Micros, but I do branch out
- it seems that I'm getting my first supercomputer soon. :)

My current collection consists of (from memory - I'll probably miss a
few):
 
Amstrad CPC6128 (x2) and Notepad NC100
Apple ][+, ][e enhanced, ][e platinum, ][c (x6), ][gs, ///+, Lisa 2/5,
Mac 512k
Atari VCS, 400, 800, 800xl (x2), Portfolio
Commodore VIC-20 (x3), 64c (x2), SX-64, 128, PC-10
DEC Microvax II
Dick Smith Electronics Wizard, Dick Smith System 80 (x2), VZ-300
Exidy Sorcerer
Honeywell Microsystem 6 (I'm still hunting for any information about this
one).
IBM PC/XT
Mattel Intelvision
Memotech MTX-500
Microbee 64k
Sharp MZ-721
Surwave Amigo
Tandy TRS-80 Model 4P, CoCo 1, CoCo 2
Wang 286

And today an OSI Challenger 4P arrived. :) Keen.

My bigest wishes at the moment are for a NeXT Cube, and Apple ][c+ and a
Spectravideo 318/328.

Adam.
Received on Sun Mar 01 1998 - 06:50:10 GMT