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From: Roger Merchberger <zmerch_at_30below.com>
Date: Fri Jan 8 07:52:04 1999

Once upon a midnight dreary, Victor the Cleaner had spoken clearly:
>Hi, folks.

Hello.

>After a couple of days lurking, I'm finding the endless discussion of Altair
>prices and email "formats" dreary. The former was a rather badly built
piece
>of crap compared to the IMSAI (though we obviously have to acknowledge the
>Altair's historical importance - right BEHIND the Mark 8), and the latter
>has nothing to do with antique computers. I should think that the list
owner
>should have clamped off that discussion some time ago.

Erm... we have a bit of an "alternative lifestyle" list 'round here; as the
occasional off-topic thread is tolerated, but yes, once in a while things
get a little out of hand on the list. Just "sort by headers" and delete en
masse, is my motto.

Really, despite the noise, IMNSHO there is *no* better place to be for
getting information about classic computers.

>In other news,
>
>Miles O'Neal (meo_at_netads.com) queried:
>
>> I'd really like to get hold of a functioning
>> (or close) Compucolor or Intecolor from the
>> early 80s. The ones we used at Georgia Tech
>> were all in one unit (I think), a big color
>> monitor console sort of thing, like God's own
>> ADM3a, in technicolor. (I could be wrong,
>> but that's what I seem to remember.) I'd
>> prefer one with a disk drive.

>I can't imagine why you'd want one.

[snip]

For the same reason some (many?) people here like their Commodore 64's &
VIC-20's. _Personally_, I have no use for them (save a couple from the
dumpster, but not even powered 'em up -- will be up for trade fodder soon)
but for a lot of people on this list, they were their first computer.
Sentimentality goes a *long* way on this list (which is his reason for
owning the computer you don't want, BTW). Believe me, many folks are just
as turned off by my RS/Tandys & Ataris & whatnot... but that's o.k. too.

By List consensus, we've already figured out that *no-one* on the list is
normal, so if _you_ are, you'll just have to learn to deal with strange
flights-of-fancy... ;-)

Hang in there, find the delete key, and I guarantee you you *will* learn a
lot while being on this list. I have.

Just my $0.02 USD (what's that in Euros??? ;-)
Roger "Merch" Merchberger
Received on Fri Jan 08 1999 - 07:52:04 GMT