[Coco] Semi OT: My Latest addition to my vintage computer collection
Roger Taylor
operator at coco3.com
Thu Sep 13 23:53:37 EDT 2007
At 07:35 PM 9/13/2007, you wrote:
>I will leave the case alone. It's surprisingly well preserved. The
>fella I got it front said it has been in storage for over 25 years.
>I have some hope in getting software to it via the serial port.
>Inside one of the drives is a floppy disk labeled terminal program
>but it has been in the drive for over 20 years so who knows if the
>media has remained stable enough to be used.
>
> Whats funny is he included an old black and white TV he modified
> for use as a monitor. Just the other night I was telling my kids
> that when I was very young a lot of TV's were not in color and had
> no remote control. I think they did not believe me until I showed
> them the TV today.
It could be worse... what about the black and white TV that was in
the movie Revenge of the Nerds... the TV they had to watch in the
make-do dorm in the gym. Try to push that TV on a kid today. Haha.
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Roger Taylor
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