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My collection has grown

I find old computer collections grow like warts !

I keep on declaring 'no more' but then another one slips in. I only have one target machine now, an Altair or an IMSAI, but a HP 9000 series 300 just hove into view and now I have a boot full.

I really will have to get to selling some of my stuff to fund an IMSAI really, but its sooo hard to let anything go...

Am I lost ?
 
Wow, how did you find that TRS-80? And three drives?

And I can't really see but that seems to a be a clone AT? I would like to have both of those set ups.

I am on the lookout for an IBM 5170. Currently have a sometimes-not-working 5162 which is closely related to the 5170.

Seaken
 
seaken said:
Wow, how did you find that TRS-80? And three drives?

And I can't really see but that seems to a be a clone AT? I would like to have both of those set ups.

I am on the lookout for an IBM 5170. Currently have a sometimes-not-working 5162 which is closely related to the 5170.

Seaken
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The TRS-80 you see was given to me in the early 80s by folks who ran a software company called Med Systems Software. They stopped writing titles for the model 1 and, as a graduate student, I pretty much accepted anything as long as it wasn't a disease. I had loads of fun with these guys...met them in the back of a Radio Shack...used to insist that the founder "took my flashing cursor routine" :). They were a very talented group and I still keep in touch with one of them who runs this great spy novel site [shameless plug]- one of the best and fastest programmers I have ever known.

I also have my original 16K M1.

Had to do a good deal of work on both of them but they both now work.

I really can't explain nostalgia, but it is a unique 'thrill' to find a program that you wrote in the 80s and run it again.

The other one is a Swan [really just a DTK] XT clone. It was the closest that I could find to my old one (that a turbo 8 and this one is a turbo 10). While I got it pretty cheap, I did have to go through some pain getting it working with a modern monitor and get some compact disk storage, but that thing is rock solid. At the time, many of us could not, or would not, afford an IBM and the clones were invading. Sheesh, there were computer shows regularly and you could get the most generic and cheapest parts available - it was like a traveling Ali-Bang-Bay.

Good times :)
 
That is nice. Having that since the 80's is a cool thing. My Advantage is my father-in-laws from about 1982. And it was a thrill to get it going again.

Ahh, XT Clone. It has an AT style case so I wasn't sure. My first computer that I purchased myself was an XT class Tandy 1400FD. And I now have two other working XT class machines. (And I promised my third to a forum member). I enjoy the XT class but I am now partial to the 286's and am looking for an AT. I have two other 286's but I want an original IBM AT 5170 if I can find one.

I understand the not wanting to pony up the cash fort an actual IBM back then. I went with Tandy because it was on sale and I didn't have my Father-in-law's deep pockets! I bought my parents a clone AT out of the Computer Shopper for cheap.

Yes, good times.

Seaken
 
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