confession time

Jan 18, 2006 83 Replies

I've got one of those, plus;

  • Mattel Aquarius * TRS-80 colour pen plotter (but no TRS-80) * various Commodore 64s and a 128 I believe * a small herd of Spectrums from the 48k to the +3 * an almost-working ZX81 with rampacks * a pile of beebs of various configurations * two electrons * some Atari VCSes and a later Atari console * two original Apple Mac SE machines, one with hard disc * a few Amigas, 2 500s and a 1200 I think * at least one Atari ST * a trio of Acorn Archimedes machines, an A440, A3000 and a Risc PC * a Silicon Graphics thing, Indigo I think * a Sun Ultra 30 (I think it's a 30) * 12 permanently connected linux boxes on my network, 5 of them in a 19" 6 foot tall rack * a linux box in an old arcade machine cabinet emulating 5000 games * another 15 PCs from P1 75MHz to P4 3GHz stored in the loft.

Oh and one windows laptop used only to read work email.

As you can tell I hate throwing computers out!

On my car shopping list is a Series 1 80" landy and just about any early Riley, although cost limits the availability of the last item :-(

I didn't say you could keep them. I haven't kept them for 26 years for your benefit.....

But scanning them would be nice.

What happened to ETI anyway ?

Steve

I have what I assume must be very very rare Spectrum prototype, with a kind of bridge thingy for Ram expansion, over the main board, which I believe never went into production. This was obtained to settle a student debt, from 20 odd years ago, from a guy who had a placement at Sinclair Research.

Steve

Send me a few pics and I'll see if any of the comp.sys.sinclair crowd can identify it, or you can wander over there and have a go yourself. Be warned though; it's customary every year for a flamewar between c.s.sinclair and a Commodore 64 newsgroup to break out over xmas and the new year, and it's still going although not quite so vehemently at the moment... I decided not to cross-post this to c.s.sinclair in case the flame war spreads to landies and generic old stuff ;-)

in article snipped-for-privacy@news.howhill.com, Dave Liquorice at snipped-for-privacy@howhill.com wrote on 20/1/06 2:26 pm:

Poor kid!

Nikki

in article snipped-for-privacy@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com, Rory at snipped-for-privacy@griffon65.freeserve.co.uk wrote on 20/1/06 5:49 pm:

Is that due to the icicle hanging from the end of your nose?

Nikki

in article snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, Austin Shackles at snipped-for-privacy@ddol-las.net wrote on 21/1/06 9:10 am:

I wish I knew!

Nikki

in article snipped-for-privacy@4ax.com, Mother at "@ {mother} @"@101fc.net wrote on 21/1/06 5:15 pm:

I certainly will. Danielle, the oldest is only 3cm shorter than I am and Jessica isn't far behind her.

It doesn't seem that long ago that we HAD to by a Land Rover as we couldn't all fit the three girls and a baby car seat in the back of the Volvo.

Nikki

...and Rory spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...

I assume you are not one of the female readers of this group. The phrase "chapel hat-pegs" comes to mind.

I've never liked my below to be frozen.

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 17:53:53 +0000, Mother scribbled the following nonsense:

and work with austin to develop it as a minibus!

You're forgetting "Scammell wheels nuts"

D

Austin's already admitted he can't do it...

...and snipped-for-privacy@yahoo.com spake unto the tribes of Usenet, saying...

And "blind cobbler's thumbs".

Fnarr.

On or around Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:20:06 +0000, Mother enlightened us thusly:

Oi. I said I can't *afford* it... I could *do* it, no problem.

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 21:47:01 -0000, "Richard Brookman" scribbled the following nonsense:

We just say "Radio 2 anyone?"

On Sun, 22 Jan 2006 23:17:43 +0000, Austin Shackles scribbled the following nonsense:

nikki buys a 101, sends it to wales, austin converts it and returns it!

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