treasure haul

From: TheDM <thedm_at_sunflower.com>
Date: Fri Sep 11 00:26:47 1998

When or IF you get rid of it, im very interested in that monitor.
-----Original Message-----
From: Jim <jim_at_calico.litterbox.com>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Thursday, September 10, 1998 10:19 PM
Subject: treasure haul


>A buddy of mine is packing up to move and asked me if I'd like to take a
"bunch
>of computer junk" off his hands. Now that I have it home, I find I have:
>
>1 commodore 64.
>1 composite monitor for a 64.
>1 1541 floppy drive.
>1 Sekosia(?) printer with a C=64 interface.
>1 vic 1600 modem.
>1 Apple Printer.
>lots of manuals and stuff for the 2e I bought from him earlier.
>lots of manuals, cartriges, and software for the 64.
>
>I haven't had a chance to test anything but the printer, which appears to
>work (although as usual my GS doesn't seem to LIKE it much. I may wind up
>switching back to my epson lx800 with that machine.)
>
>Once I've tested the 64 and whatnot to make sure it works, and messed about
>with the software I always wanted to have but could never afford, I'm
probably
>going to get rid of it. And I can't quite put my finger on why, since I
was
>a '64 owner until 1990. Maybe its that I would miss the custom hardware I
had.
>Or that I can't imagine going back to a 60 column screen. Or the
non-standard
>interfaces for EVERYTHING on it. I dunno. Does it make sense that I
wouldn't
>be nostalgic for the machine I actually owned, as opposed to the apple2s?
>
>*shrug*
>
>Anyway. Just a heads up for you Commodore folk out there. :)
>
>-Jim
>--
>Jim Strickland
>jim_at_calico.litterbox.com
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