What's become the rock bottom price ...

Fred,
what is that red thing you are showing us?
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This is the real classic:D

Kiu
 
Rob,

You need a computer and lots of programs to work on a Z3. Very cool car, but IMHO, not in the same league. Kind of like a Leica M3 to an M7. The M7 is a nice camera, but not as nice as an M3.

I have the older cousin of the 128 (a Mac SE) down stairs, as I am going through the clean-up phase I will have to bring it up and show it to my kids. My dual-core Mac Mini will kick its butt for speed and different programs, but there is a beauty in the simplicity of her interface.

B2 (;->
 
Classic?

Classic?

Did I hear someone mention a classic?

How about this for a classic?


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My daily commute!

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The Grace Hopper manual sounds pretty cool.

The first computers arrived in my newspaper office in 1986 -- Zenith 286s with 20MB hard drives and 640K memory. Our editor got the one with the color monitor. We set then up and turned them on, and the screen said "not a bootable partition." So they sat there for six months while we kept working on typewriters. Eventually, I wrote a fairly amusing story about how we'd not-quite-entered the computer age but were thwarted by "not a bootable partition." My editor had fought pretty hard to get the computers, and she was somewhat horrified that my article would alert the publisher and accounting departments to the fact that we weren't doing anything with the $25,000 worth of Zeniths they'd bought. Finally someone else on staff spent the weekend holed up with all the user-manuals and figured out how to format the drives and install the software. Within a few weeks, we were transmitting text to the publisher at 1200 baud with our MOdulator/DEModulator. Life hasn't been the same since.
 
Brian,

I've got a Wang 928 card for your 360!! Wait, I have a WANG mouse for it too! Yes, an original three button WANG mouse (made by Logitech). I may have dumped my old Wang Extended keyboard a few years back, what a wonderful feeling keyboard.

Two years ago my Father-In-Law finally dumped his Hayes 1200 baud modems. He is more of a pack rat than I am.

Vince is right, it has not been the same since, but by me, that's OK. I am having way to much fun (though these day not as much) in general having become a geek.

B2 (;->
 
Grace Hopper, she created COBOL while watching Basketball! That one is worth it's weight in core memory (thank you Dr. Wang!).

B2 (;->
 
Brian Sweeney said:
Well if the SP-2005 makes it into the $2,500, I'll certainly pick one up. I just don't think Nikon made enough of them to push them that low with the lens.

For cars, I'm much more practical.

And Nikki and her cousin love to see the Atari 400 come out of the basement, with it's 16K of memory, cassette version of Zaxxon, and 8KByte Star-Raiders cartridge. I gave an 800XL with a BASIC cartridge and floppy Disk, and a TI-99/4a to her cousin (11yrs old). He started writing his own games. Anybody need a Sinclair ZX81? Wang 360K? 1946 IBM MARK I manual autographed by Grace Hopper?
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Come on Brian,this is a RF forum!
Stop this computer jibberish or I will pull out my Nikon E3

Kiu
 
Holly Neck Aches Batman!

The E3 may have had more processing power than my Wang VS 15 did, but I think E3 weighed more.

B2 (;->
 
My first one was an Osborne. Wordstar 1.01. Guy across the street gave it to me when he advanced to a Zenith.
 
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