Recent content by Grimakis

Hi, I guess I was responding to this comment on the previous page: "People who "flip" for a living are why EVERTHING from old hardware to houses cost so much. They're a plague." Also, again if we are talking about the hobby in general, it's not fair to believe that people are cornering the...

Again. I can't agree with this line of thought. People that flip things play an essential role in the every day economy. Brokers and dealers allow fluid transactions. Think of four people. Person A owns a vintage computer, he is willing to sell it for $100. Person B is a reseller. He buys and...

Prices are set by the market. People are always strange about this. On every retro community, I see people complaining about prices being "driven up" by resellers. In reality, prices have been artificially low, due to an informationally inefficient market. As eBay gives people a source of...

Can you clarify a bit about Workbench or WHDLoad? From what I understand, Kickstart is ROM firmware that bootstraps into the OS.(Workbench?) Workbench can be stored either on a Hard Disk(or CF card) or booted from a floppy disk every time. Given that I would want to keep the OS on a Compact...

New Poster here. Right now, all I have is a Commodore 64. I've got no other 8-Bit computers, and I have no 16-Bit computers. I've been watching the Computer Chronicles on YouTube. I've seen video of the Amiga, the Atari ST, IBM PCs, etc. I have an urge to get a 16-bit machine. Based on what I...