>> these things are headed for landfill big time. Along about 2010 or 2015 and
>> trying to put together a representative 486 system from the "early 90's" is
>> going to be damn near impossible. Look at the PDP-8's which spanned 15
>> years of production and are now pretty difficult to get hold of.
> That's because only several thousand PDP-8's were ever produced. Trust
> me, I don't think you're EVER going to have problems finding a 486
> motherboard, at least not in the next millenium.
There has been a time when I thougt that picking up
a ZX80 from dirt is not worth ... and now ?
Also PET - have you seen the PETs on ePay ? I got
most of my PET/CBMs way below USD 50 - and now ?
Hard to finde won at a reasonable price.
Gruss
Hans
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Fri Oct 23 1998 - 12:16:33 BST