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Tom Potts wrote: > On Wednesday 07 November 2007 17:21, Paul Sutton wrote: >>>>>> Oh I don't know, I'm in my late 20's (29) and I love the old >>>>>> technology. When I was growing up I only got to see a handful of >>>>>> machines but I was really interested in anything computer related. >>>>>> Now much to my other half's annoyance I'm collect old computers >>>>>> (well >>>>>> I say collect, I buy them at car boot sales or off e-Bay if they're >>>>>> local and can sneak them in). In my selection of old machines I >>>>>> have >>>>>> a working VIC20 without a tape deck, an Acorn Electron, a 48k >>>>>> Spectrum+ without a power supply, a ZX81 16k ram pack and a >>>>>> couple of >>>>>> old consoles. >>>>>> >>>>>> As much as I like emulation I'd love to play with the actual real >>>>>> hardware. >>>>>> >>>>>> Rob >> I have a dragon 32 sitting here in a plastic sack, been there since I >> picked it up at a school summer fair, not doing anything, and not >> really had a chance to play with it, I also have a 386 deslop unit (or >> it could be 286 can't remember) me and tom had a play with it a few >> years ago. But again its just sitting in my office room >> >> yours if you want it, along with a case, and the mentioned 286 or 386. > If it is a 286 I may be able to dig out a set of Xenix discs for it! > Tom te tom te tom > > Xenix? Wasn't that Microsoft's flavour of Unix? Rob -- The Mailing List for the Devon & Cornwall LUG http://mailman.dclug.org.uk/listinfo/list FAQ: http://www.dcglug.org.uk/linux_adm/list-faq.html