Hi,
It's nice to see that I am not the only one who spend ours in the basement trying to get old computers up and running!
I am from the arctic norway - about 70 degrees north and close to the russian border. I have been 'hooked' to the computers since my brother got his first C-64 . While he and the others played games I spent time programming in basic. Still I use to spend X-mas and easter with long night in front of the old C-64.
Nowadays I mostly use a modern PC running Linux, but when I really want to have a good time I bring a beer down in the basement and start up my 286 with 640kb and play with them.
4 years ago I throwed away most of my old PC's (and a Mac) and now I feel terrible for that.
I have just started to collect again and I only have some 286, 386 and a C-64. My dreams is to get some soviet computers, but they are very rare. I have been planning to travel to Murmansk or Nilkel in Russia to see if I can get some old ones (its only a couple of ours in the car).
I have to say that it was nice to find this forum so that I could feel more 'normal' - and now I can tell my wife that collecting old 'crap' is not so unormal. :D
By the way, 35 years and living in Norway (Vadsø)
Arne Lindbach
It's nice to see that I am not the only one who spend ours in the basement trying to get old computers up and running!
I am from the arctic norway - about 70 degrees north and close to the russian border. I have been 'hooked' to the computers since my brother got his first C-64 . While he and the others played games I spent time programming in basic. Still I use to spend X-mas and easter with long night in front of the old C-64.
Nowadays I mostly use a modern PC running Linux, but when I really want to have a good time I bring a beer down in the basement and start up my 286 with 640kb and play with them.
4 years ago I throwed away most of my old PC's (and a Mac) and now I feel terrible for that.
I have just started to collect again and I only have some 286, 386 and a C-64. My dreams is to get some soviet computers, but they are very rare. I have been planning to travel to Murmansk or Nilkel in Russia to see if I can get some old ones (its only a couple of ours in the car).
I have to say that it was nice to find this forum so that I could feel more 'normal' - and now I can tell my wife that collecting old 'crap' is not so unormal. :D
By the way, 35 years and living in Norway (Vadsø)
Arne Lindbach