Hello!
I'm new to this old computer collecting stuff, and already I'm slighly addicted.
Last week, I took possesion of my first vintage(ish) computer, a B/W Macintosh Classic (1991), with 4Mb RAM, and 40Mb disk drive. It works (although there's a Adobe Type Manager error on startup, which doesn't affect operation), and has Microsoft Works. It has personal letters the original owner had written still on it (think they may have been a writer, and possibly a human rights person, by reading some of the letters), and I don't know whether I should leave these there for nostalga, or delete them. I suppose from a security point of view, I should delete them.
It also smells like Gandalfs tobacco pouch! Probably smoked more ciggies than a certain Pouges frontman! And its a slighly nicotine yellow now - probably with age, more than nocotine though lol.
But what I really want, is to lay my hands on an old 48K rubber key speccy! I bet Sir Clive never suspected that 30 years later, previous owners would be looking to collect these little bits of techo history!
At this point, I don't know what I'll be doing, buying most probably (if the wife allows
), and possibly some selling.
Anyhows
Hello everyone
0xFF
or you can call me '256' or '11111111'
I'm new to this old computer collecting stuff, and already I'm slighly addicted.
Last week, I took possesion of my first vintage(ish) computer, a B/W Macintosh Classic (1991), with 4Mb RAM, and 40Mb disk drive. It works (although there's a Adobe Type Manager error on startup, which doesn't affect operation), and has Microsoft Works. It has personal letters the original owner had written still on it (think they may have been a writer, and possibly a human rights person, by reading some of the letters), and I don't know whether I should leave these there for nostalga, or delete them. I suppose from a security point of view, I should delete them.
It also smells like Gandalfs tobacco pouch! Probably smoked more ciggies than a certain Pouges frontman! And its a slighly nicotine yellow now - probably with age, more than nocotine though lol.
But what I really want, is to lay my hands on an old 48K rubber key speccy! I bet Sir Clive never suspected that 30 years later, previous owners would be looking to collect these little bits of techo history!
At this point, I don't know what I'll be doing, buying most probably (if the wife allows
), and possibly some selling.Anyhows
Hello everyone
0xFF
or you can call me '256' or '11111111'
