6 best computers you can buy! :)

[SUBMAN1]

Maybe I'm getting old, but for other old timers here, I think you'll enjoy this.

-S

http://www.boreme.com/media/yr2007/computer-best-buys-1-1.jpg

http://www.boreme.com/media/yr2007/computer-best-buys-2-1.jpg

http://www.boreme.com/media/yr2007/computer-best-buys-3-1.jpg

[flintlock]

Wow, that sure was a blast from the past.

I still have an old Apple IIc in a box in the basement. :D

[nikimcbee]

Will they handle SH4?:huh:

[lesrae]

Sweet!

I had a Dragon 32, close cousin of the TRS-80.

Good site for nostalgics: http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=117

[joea]

Will they handle SH4?:huh:

Will they handle SH1?? :rotfl:

[Godalmighty83]

id buy one, rip out its inards stick a half-decent new system in and bingo. retro fun.

replacing the monitor scrren may be the tricky bit.

[STEED]

And not us forget the great retro games like Asteroids. :)

http://www.neave.com/games/asteroids/

[flintlock]

Asteroids ... fed a lot of quarters into the video game machine slots on that one.

[joea]

Yup...on holidays going to Vancouver Island as a kid we'd drive aboard the ferry and spend the one tow hour crossing to Nanaimo from Horseshoe Bay. There was an arcade with space invaders (also available on Steed's link) and asteroids...and I'd beg my folks for quarters to waste my time on the passage. Well, given typical BC weather it was not always fun to sit outside. :ping:

[Skybird]

In my late years at school I wanted so very much an Atari 800, and later a TI-99 - that thing looked so cool and slick! It was the time of Matthew Broderick playing "Wargames" in the cinemas. Another time, a better feel of life. Definitely missing it.

I later started with a programmable Casio pocket calculator, and a Commodore VC. Later came an Amiga 500 which i operated until 1998, I think. not before 1999 i came to my first PC. All university work I did on the PC of a girl-friend of mine.

Eighties' magic! :yep:

[UglyMowgli]

My old TRS-80 mod II (16kb of RAM!) is on a Polish sail ship making cruise between Gdansk and La Havana, the computer is use to make positionning computation (the soft is in old BASIC) the captain use sextan he didn't trust GPS system.

[Syxx_Killer]

For those of you with old computers, you may want to hang onto them. Never know what they may be worth in the future. :doh:

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/04/15/0722206&from=rss

[GSpector]

Interesting ad. I do not recall that the TRS-80 Model 3 ever actually being released. I think it went straight from Model 2 to Model 4 due to some problem and major changes at the time created the Model 4 (which had a few extra white buttons).

[fatty]

I have a couple of old working computers in my basement, namely a C64 and some from Zenith and Olivetti circa 1985. Eagerly awaiting the day I can strike it rich on them!

[Puster Bill]

Interesting ad. I do not recall that the TRS-80 Model 3 ever actually being released. I think it went straight from Model 2 to Model 4 due to some problem and major changes at the time created the Model 4 (which had a few extra white buttons).

Nope. I *LEARNED* on a Model III. In fact, I learned better than my teacher, which was a continuing source of hilarity, and a couple of warnings, like to not poke a certain memory location to lock up the keyboard, then poke the white graphics thingy into all of the display memory (takes a reset to fix it).

[SUBMAN1]

Will they handle SH4?:huh:
Will they handle SH1?? :rotfl:

No :D

[SUBMAN1]

id buy one, rip out its inards stick a half-decent new system in and bingo. retro fun.

replacing the monitor scrren may be the tricky bit.

Fitting a small flat panel would probably work!

[SUBMAN1]

I have a couple of old working computers in my basement, namely a C64 and some from Zenith and Olivetti circa 1985. Eagerly awaiting the day I can strike it rich on them!

Maybe in 100 years, the plastic its made out of might be worth soemthing due to oil shortage!

[fatty]

I have a couple of old working computers in my basement, namely a C64 and some from Zenith and Olivetti circa 1985. Eagerly awaiting the day I can strike it rich on them!

Maybe in 100 years, the plastic its made out of might be worth soemthing due to oil shortage!

I know :x Every so often I check on eBay to see how they're selling, it is pretty dismal right now.

[SUBMAN1]

I have a couple of old working computers in my basement, namely a C64 and some from Zenith and Olivetti circa 1985. Eagerly awaiting the day I can strike it rich on them!
Maybe in 100 years, the plastic its made out of might be worth soemthing due to oil shortage!
I know :x Every so often I check on eBay to see how they're selling, it is pretty dismal right now.
I bought a commodore 64 at the Goodwill (only place I could think to find one) for $5 about 3 or 4 years back. I might still have it. Maybe you can use it as a spare! An emulator works better now days anyway.

-S

[bookworm_020]

I remember my Dad bringing home the Aplle II from his work for the weekend (he's a school teacher). Memories of Crystel quest and Where in the world is Carmen San Deigo come flooding back:)

Back when a kilobyte seemed like a lot of space and monochrome screens were state of the art!:doh: