> Kind Sirs,
And madams - at least two of the stellar lights on this group appear to
be female.
>
> I came across a reference to "Classic Computer Collector's Mailing List"
> on the following web page: http://world.std.com/~mbg/moi_ks10.html
>
> I have a small PC (as in IBM PC compatible) collection and would like to
> maintain contact with others interested in preserving (in operating
> condition) historically significant examples of these machines.
>
> Does your activity cover these little machines?
>
> Thank you for your attention.
>
> I am,
> Paul King at
> Paul_King_at_ml.com
There's a certain amount of disagreement on whether PCs are classic or not.
One camp says that any computer over 10 years old qualifies, another will
say that since the PC archetecture is at the core of modern PCs that it doesn't.
Personally I say welcome to the group.
My collection includes a DOS machine - Amstrad ppc 640 portable. It's a
little beat up, but it works, and it's a delight to see some of my old dos
software that was just too good to throw out when I cut over to windows run
and be useful again. (Example - and it's for sure classic software -
Norton Textra Writer. I bought this on a pair of 360k floppies from the campus
bookstore when I was an undergrad. It was far slicker than any other DOS word
processor I'd ever used and for 26 dollars it was cheaper than most of my
books. WordPerfect has more features and Textra writer shows its age by
blowing up if you let it try and compute the blocks free on a disk bigger than
512 megs (but you can switch that off) but it's an awfully nice little word
processor and the whole shebang fits on one 720k floppy, including the
dictionary.
That's the only PC in my collection though. I'm mostly interested in Vaxen
and (formerly) 8 and 16 bit apples. I have a Commodore 64 in my collection
only because a friend was throwing it out and I used to have one, and I
have a Kaypro 4/84 I acquired just for something different.
--
Jim Strickland
jim_at_DIESPAMMERSCUMcalico.litterbox.com
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