OK, enough of this drivel from all you kids with your fancy 286en with 640KB memory, hard drives and 3.5" floppies. Let's get back to the COOL Surv-Pre-PC stuff, when you could tell how much memory was in a system by the weight, when a box of 10 diskettes might be all you'd ever need, and when you propped the lid of your computer open like an old Dodge pickup!
A forwarded message from the VintagePC list that might strike a chord with some here... - Bob ----- Original Message ----- From: "Support Staff" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Thursday, December 20, 2001 7:12 PM Subject: [VintagePC] Web sites offer vintage tech gifts for geeks > MP3 players, personal digital assistants and digital cameras continue to be > popular holidays gifts for the digerati. But a 20-year-old PC with no hard > drive, no CD-ROM drive, and only 64KB of memory? Now that's a really cool > gift. > > In recent years vintage computers such as the 1982 KayPro II described above > have been growing in popularity among technology fans and collectors. Web > sites, newsgroups, and mailing lists, including the Obsolete Computer Museum > and the Classic Computers Mailing List pay homage to obsolete, obscure, and > discarded PCs. > > For the complete story - click on > http://www.cnn.com/2001/TECH/ptech/12/20/geek.gifts.idg/index.html To unsubscribe from SURVPC send a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with unsubscribe SURVPC in the body of the message. Also, trim this footer from any quoted replies. More info can be found at; http://www.softcon.com/archives/SURVPC.html
