nymetropolitans
Experienced Member
I stumbled across this site after being intrigued by this video I found on youtube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Nn0eDF9X0
I've been spending any spare time I've had in the last day or so reading the posts on here and it really brings me back. I don't have any "vintage" computer equipment these days, but up until about...2001 I guess...I used nothing but an ancient Tandy 1000RLX with a 2400 baud Hayes modem to connect to the internet. A local library had a free dialup service available that you could use the Lynx browser through, wasn't even all that slow since it was entirely text. That was a strange computer with DOS loaded into the ROM (I think) and I was never able to successfully install Windows on it....there used to be some company that made a ridiculous amount of aftermarket parts for Tandy computers, at one point you could even buy a Pentium motherboard that would squeeze into the tiny RLX case. The name escapes me at the moment but I may still have their catalog around somewhere...I'll have to look. I had a Mac 512k at one point too and that might still be kicking around in the attic....
Reading this site makes me wish I'd never have tossed all that stuff...I'd love to try and fire it up again and try to get it connected to my home network! Anyway, keep up the good work I'll be checking back in often!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3Nn0eDF9X0
I've been spending any spare time I've had in the last day or so reading the posts on here and it really brings me back. I don't have any "vintage" computer equipment these days, but up until about...2001 I guess...I used nothing but an ancient Tandy 1000RLX with a 2400 baud Hayes modem to connect to the internet. A local library had a free dialup service available that you could use the Lynx browser through, wasn't even all that slow since it was entirely text. That was a strange computer with DOS loaded into the ROM (I think) and I was never able to successfully install Windows on it....there used to be some company that made a ridiculous amount of aftermarket parts for Tandy computers, at one point you could even buy a Pentium motherboard that would squeeze into the tiny RLX case. The name escapes me at the moment but I may still have their catalog around somewhere...I'll have to look. I had a Mac 512k at one point too and that might still be kicking around in the attic....
Reading this site makes me wish I'd never have tossed all that stuff...I'd love to try and fire it up again and try to get it connected to my home network! Anyway, keep up the good work I'll be checking back in often!
