shrike
Member
Greetings from Seattle!
I've recently gained a resurgence in interest in vintage computing (blame the addicts at the Unix-Haters Federation at Toorcamp). I'm starting to remember with some fondness the machines I used to use in elementary and middle school, which were already pretty outdated when I got the them thanks to the deplorable nature of public school funding in Utah when I was a kid (but I digress).
My collection is small as of now:
Kaypro I (1986) that was my father's (He never knew how to get a good deal)
IBM PS/2 P70 (1990) with a non-working display that I recently picked up (I apparently inherited the trait)
Lime iMac (1999) that I purchased cheap a decade or so ago and needs to be rescued from my parents' garage
So far the only modification I have done is to add (non destructively) a BeagleBone to the Kaypro so that it 'boots' FreeBSD. That only goes so far as being a neat party trick. I would love to start to dig in and refurbish some of these machines so that they can be used in their original capacity, and I look forward to being part of this community!
Cheers,
-- Michael
I've recently gained a resurgence in interest in vintage computing (blame the addicts at the Unix-Haters Federation at Toorcamp). I'm starting to remember with some fondness the machines I used to use in elementary and middle school, which were already pretty outdated when I got the them thanks to the deplorable nature of public school funding in Utah when I was a kid (but I digress).
My collection is small as of now:
Kaypro I (1986) that was my father's (He never knew how to get a good deal)
IBM PS/2 P70 (1990) with a non-working display that I recently picked up (I apparently inherited the trait)
Lime iMac (1999) that I purchased cheap a decade or so ago and needs to be rescued from my parents' garage
So far the only modification I have done is to add (non destructively) a BeagleBone to the Kaypro so that it 'boots' FreeBSD. That only goes so far as being a neat party trick. I would love to start to dig in and refurbish some of these machines so that they can be used in their original capacity, and I look forward to being part of this community!
Cheers,
-- Michael