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I'm a retired programmer. I retired a few years ago for health reasons. Since then I've played at programming a little but I never seem to complete anything and that's just fine with me.
I'm pretty interested in computers micros of old. I don't have a lot of interest in mainframes or minis even though I began my career on mainframes and spent a lot of the latter days programming DG minis. When I first encountered an Apple II+ computing went beyond interesting work and became a joy.
A decade ago I began collecting old portables but I had to stop working before that got very far. I do have a few Radio Shack Model 100s and a Model 102 and a Tandy 1100hd. Also some 386 and 486 laptops but, while those are hardly very modern anymore I don't think they're really vintage yet.
My favorite toys are an HP 200lx palmtop with MS-Dos 5 and turbo C and Tasm on board. It's a pretty nice small dos machine. And a Compaq Aero 4/25 mono 486 laptop. That's the small one that gets about 6 hours on a charge with the extended battery.
I never do anything useful with these things and with any luck I never will. But I start a lot of stuff on them.
Barry
I'm a retired programmer. I retired a few years ago for health reasons. Since then I've played at programming a little but I never seem to complete anything and that's just fine with me.
I'm pretty interested in computers micros of old. I don't have a lot of interest in mainframes or minis even though I began my career on mainframes and spent a lot of the latter days programming DG minis. When I first encountered an Apple II+ computing went beyond interesting work and became a joy.
A decade ago I began collecting old portables but I had to stop working before that got very far. I do have a few Radio Shack Model 100s and a Model 102 and a Tandy 1100hd. Also some 386 and 486 laptops but, while those are hardly very modern anymore I don't think they're really vintage yet.
My favorite toys are an HP 200lx palmtop with MS-Dos 5 and turbo C and Tasm on board. It's a pretty nice small dos machine. And a Compaq Aero 4/25 mono 486 laptop. That's the small one that gets about 6 hours on a charge with the extended battery.
I never do anything useful with these things and with any luck I never will. But I start a lot of stuff on them.
Barry