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Grogster

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Posted: 08:19am 18 Jul 2019

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This was really fascinating. PILES of old computers, many of the piles are new old stock.

It is a long video, but it is well worth watching. Some amazing old stuff in that place. I really hope it is not just flattened and that most of it can be rescued.....

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KeepIS

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Posted: 08:44am 18 Jul 2019

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Wow, only seems like yesterday I was working on that stuff, thanks for the link.

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Posted: 08:50am 18 Jul 2019

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Isn't it brilliant???!!!! (rhetorical)

The PC's MECCA perhaps....

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KeepIS

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Posted: 08:57am 18 Jul 2019

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I'd love to be there just for the nostalgia, I even recognised and named the various cards he held up, even the very old ones, before he told us what they were, now I really am feeling old, but like you said, I hope as least some of really interesting stuff finds a home.

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Grogster

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Posted: 09:08am 18 Jul 2019

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HERCULES video card is one.

This was an 8-bit video interface, and it was green-screen only(single-colour).
When you see him pull one of those out to look at it - my gawd.
Count the number of chips on a card like that!

The CMM can do better then that, with ONE chip, and that same chip IS the OS too.

We're only talking 30 years or so here, so it does make you wonder....

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Posted: 09:22am 18 Jul 2019

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Posted: 10:16am 18 Jul 2019

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dammit. saw at least two cases that would be candidate for my workshop assistant MMX

London was full of little places like this in the 80s/90s. Edgware road and Tottenham Court Road are just sad reflections of cheap "electronics" stores now... they wouldn't know what a 7400 was let alone stock one.

BrianP
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Posted: 11:58pm 18 Jul 2019

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Having been in the computer fixit business for 30+ years I have a store shed that looks a little bit like that - perhaps not so much "new" or quite as old stuff...

What do I do with it? (The kids will just bin it

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KeepIS

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Posted: 01:42am 19 Jul 2019

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I blame Grogster for this. Seriously, I dreamt I was way back trying to get a Wyse terminal (Paper white phosphor) connected to my old IBM Cash-register board running CPM, that was my first DYI real computer and just before the PC came out - Even then I couldn't afford an XT PC or anything else at that time, so I had the old CPM unit with dual 8" floppy drives for a year or two, learnt assembler and Basic on it. The good old days are still remembered fondly.

Thanks Grogster

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Posted: 09:35am 19 Jul 2019

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KeepIS said I blame Grogster for this.
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The good old days are still remembered fondly.

Thanks Grogster

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I look back at my first job after my apprenticeship finished with similar feelings... I often wonder how we would have traveled to new worlds if we had then what we have now. It was great enough, but ... wow! I still have some listings with my 1985 scrawl on them... occasionally I get them out and shed a tear for what was.Edited by CaptainBoing 2019-07-20

KeepIS

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Posted: 10:18am 19 Jul 2019

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CaptainBoing said
I look back at my first job after my apprenticeship finished with similar feelings... I often wonder how we would have traveled to new worlds if we had then what we have now. It was great enough, but ... wow! I still have some listings with my 1985 scrawl on them... occasionally I get them out and shed a tear for what was.

Yes they were heady days back then, over here we had Radio inspectors storming the car parks of a Radio shop called DICK SMITH, fining people and confiscating illegal CB radios installed in the cars. I'd just got my Full call Unlimited Amateur radio licence.

Binary switch computer kits were on sale at the same store and lots of people wanting them, Saturday mornings were a buzz at the shop. Computer shows taking off, first Apple computers on show. It was a time of change and excitement, or perhaps it was just that I was young and, as the song goes, "the bitter taste of life was still sweet upon my tongue".

Sigh.

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Posted: 10:53pm 19 Jul 2019

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CaptainBoing wrote:

Quote occasionally I get them out and shed a tear for what was.

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Posted: 12:41am 21 Jul 2019

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Good post Grogs,

Sort of looks like my computer room but a bit more organised..

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