Thursday, December 17, 2009

Drool



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Other than my first computer, an IBM PS/2-30, every desktop computer I have owned has been either scratch-built or a salvaged unit with some newer parts. My current desktop at home is an IBM 8000 series that I dug out of a dumpster and installed new RAM, a hard drive and a better optical drive. The keyboard is the old Model M that came with the PS/2. My work computer (my own) is a second-hand eMachines with newer RAM and a DVD/RW drive.

The Philco computer, though, I could seriously go for.

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5 comments:

  1. Sarah12/17/2009 4:44 PM

    Hey, that model M keyboard is the cat's pajamas. I know someone who won't use anything else.

    While I like the positive clicky action, I couldn't deal with the complaints from people at work. It's loud.

    Hmm.... I think I have one somewhere in the basement. I should dig it up for home.

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  2. SkinnyDennis12/17/2009 7:59 PM

    My first was a Heathkit H89.
    http://oldcomputers.net/heathkit-h89.html

    I still have it. Bet it would boot up, too.

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  3. Eck!12/17/2009 9:19 PM

    Still running the MIS Altair 8800 and
    a collection of North*Star Horizon and a few other S100 antiques. They are circa 1978 and before (Altair is jan 1975!). Fossils still abound out there
    and some of them are running machines and doing other useful work.

    My H89 boots, My PDP8f and LSI-11 too.
    Old is not nonfunctional. It is incompatable with modern computing due
    mostly to the supersized data that used to be tiny like basic text messages.

    That steampunk retro is a nice look shame it runs winders. Winders we've taken computer OS reliability back.. You can't handle it.

    Myself, I still what what was forcasted and still hasn't arrived.

    Eck!

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  4. Nangleator12/18/2009 9:16 AM

    Actually, that computer is a CG model and doesn't exist. It's just a resumé piece for the CG artist.

    We love steam punk. (I'm in that business myself.)

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  5. Comrade Misfit12/18/2009 9:45 AM

    I know that it's CG only.

    (At least for now.)

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