reject902
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Hey Everyone!
My name's Andrew. I'm a 23 year old living just outside the windy city of Chicago. As far back as my parents and I can remember, I've always had an odd obsession with computers and vintage electronics (betamax anyone?). Their earliest recollection was when I was 4 years old; I cried (and rightfully so) when my parents decided to donate our old Apple IIe & Apple III to a local elementary school citing that they weren't going to be useful anymore. Needless to say, I snatched up the users guides for both and hid them in my toy box. To this day, I still have them. After that, when my parents would start to want to "dispose" of our old electronics, I'd sneak outside and grab them from the garbage and hide them in our crawl space. Needless to say, eventually I was caught.. Not until I was in middle school tho.
However they decided to humor my weird hobby, and continued to let me keep accumulating stuff. My collection spans from a C64, C128, VIC20 and its toys. To a TRS-80 and a Osbourne. To a Macintosh TV (<-my fav) and a SE/30 and so on. Apple & Commodore have always been my main interests, with other odds and ends (like the Xerox 820) just kind of rounding off my collection. And then of course, the holy grail of my collection and soon to be the main "project": Lisa (and that girl is deader than a doornail).
I took pretty much a four year hiatus (culprit: bars) on vintage computing. Not even so much as looking at the ones that just sat unused, until just about a month ago. My grandfather who recently moved in with us decided that, he wanted to start to work on "projects" with me (being that he's pretty much homebound now) and asked if I still like to work on computers. Suddenly the spark went off again. First I dragged out the Mac TV. Showed it off and talked it up as being so unique for its time and rare blah blah. Then went to fire it up: dead hard drive. My heart sank. Then he said "well lets fix it". And we did.
And now here I am again. Scouring the forums and fleabay, looking to get my quirky old electronics fix!
So I'm sure you'll all start to see me commenting on and tossin' in my 2cents here and there. It's great to meet you all!
-Andrew
My name's Andrew. I'm a 23 year old living just outside the windy city of Chicago. As far back as my parents and I can remember, I've always had an odd obsession with computers and vintage electronics (betamax anyone?). Their earliest recollection was when I was 4 years old; I cried (and rightfully so) when my parents decided to donate our old Apple IIe & Apple III to a local elementary school citing that they weren't going to be useful anymore. Needless to say, I snatched up the users guides for both and hid them in my toy box. To this day, I still have them. After that, when my parents would start to want to "dispose" of our old electronics, I'd sneak outside and grab them from the garbage and hide them in our crawl space. Needless to say, eventually I was caught.. Not until I was in middle school tho.
However they decided to humor my weird hobby, and continued to let me keep accumulating stuff. My collection spans from a C64, C128, VIC20 and its toys. To a TRS-80 and a Osbourne. To a Macintosh TV (<-my fav) and a SE/30 and so on. Apple & Commodore have always been my main interests, with other odds and ends (like the Xerox 820) just kind of rounding off my collection. And then of course, the holy grail of my collection and soon to be the main "project": Lisa (and that girl is deader than a doornail).
I took pretty much a four year hiatus (culprit: bars) on vintage computing. Not even so much as looking at the ones that just sat unused, until just about a month ago. My grandfather who recently moved in with us decided that, he wanted to start to work on "projects" with me (being that he's pretty much homebound now) and asked if I still like to work on computers. Suddenly the spark went off again. First I dragged out the Mac TV. Showed it off and talked it up as being so unique for its time and rare blah blah. Then went to fire it up: dead hard drive. My heart sank. Then he said "well lets fix it". And we did.
And now here I am again. Scouring the forums and fleabay, looking to get my quirky old electronics fix!
So I'm sure you'll all start to see me commenting on and tossin' in my 2cents here and there. It's great to meet you all!
-Andrew