WARNING: RANTING COMPUTER NUT...

From: Joe R. <rigdonj_at_cfl.rr.com>
Date: Thu Jun 17 15:03:22 2004

At 07:32 PM 6/16/04 -0400, you wrote:
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>Joe R. wrote:
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>> Well Said! Too many members of this list simply collect old computers
>>and don't bother with the related docs, manuals or application programs. I
>>have an old original 64k IBM PC and it's been very intersting collecting
>>original software and peripherals for it. Things like DOS 1.0, CPM-86, uSCD
>>Pascal, Professional Fortran, PolyForth, IBM GPIB software, early versions
>>of MS Word and MultiPlan, EasyWriter (written by none other than Capt'n
>>Crunch!), etc etc. And that's just the software, it doesn't include all the
>>various Tech Refs and all the fasinating 3rd party cards and peripherals.
>>I don't like the current over-bloated version-of-the-day MicroSoft products
>>either but it doesn't mean that the early PCs are uninteresting and not
>>worth collecting.
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>> Joe
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>Careful Joe!
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>Some members bother to write O/S's and programming languages for vintage
>machines, and even
>build boot device emulators and ship them to other list members who have
>collections of machines
>they are doing anything with.
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>And the other list members don't even boot the their machines, and post
>to the list about people
>who don't use their old machines. (insert stuipid smiley face icon
>here, using a number 2 pencil
>and your ASR-33 system console.)

   Well make that people that don't use ALL of their machines! Honestly I
have a lot more computers than I do time!


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>By the way, I need to send you a new EPROM, the build you have has a
>~nasty~ bug thats been
>fixed with the latest build (which now has limited 7900 and IDE disk
>support).

   Speaking of that. I almost snagged another HP1000 at KSC last week along
with a 7900 DD, a D to A converter, a HP180D scope and more all mounted in
a nice HP rack. I say almost because I didn't have a way to haul it so it
went to the gold scrappers. I called eveyone that I knew that had a truck
but couldn't get one.

    Joe
Received on Thu Jun 17 2004 - 15:03:22 BST