On Thu, 19 May 2016, Pete Turnbull wrote: > - my first Exidy Sorcerer, with 48K, every ROM PAC and every manual I > could buy, and a lot of mods,
Those look really cool. I remember seeing them in computer mags when I was uhhh, 7 or 8 years old. Drooled. > - an SGI Indy which I sold for little more than the cost of shipping, I still have 2 Indys. One R4600/200 and one R5000/180. I also have a Challenge S with an R4600 in it. These are easy to warehouse, but I probably need to hoard up some Dallas clock modules for them, since they often go bad and lose their MAC. > - a nice VT131, a VT102, and a couple of VT220s, Hmm, I always thought the "paper white" terminals were the neatest of the monochrome terminal ilk, but I'm not sure if any DEC VTs were ever made that way. > - a big collection of SCSI and IEEE-488 cables, Oh man, I threw away a bunch of serial and SCSI cables at one point only to have to buy the same ones again years later. Ugh. > OTOH, I don't really have enough space for the stuff I still do have, > nor enough time and energy to make it all work! Agreed. I have some dream of building a nice man-cave with individual 2-3 workstations setup at any given time for me to tinker on and a full bench off to the side to work-on/fix stuff. However, then I wake up in suburbia and remember how much the price per sq/ft is, now that real estate is back in the stratosphere. -Swift