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[Thomas Clayton]

Dear veganalex:

Are you in England (as I thought) OR in Australia - or elsewhere???

(Your money discussion leads me to wonder ..  .)

What's "veganalex" that you chose it as a 'screen name'?

My thought about the PS/2 25-'286 was to find it a 'good' home - as
one says about orphans. Anyway, for GEM 'work', it'd be
appropriate.  multi-ple 30MB HDDs used one at a time


Friends of mine got a second one at the same time as I did. I
wonder what they did with theirs? 

Sincerely,

Thomas Clayton



--- veganalex <veganalex at gmail.com> wrote:

> hmm....yeh i'd love that....dunno what its like but yeh i'd love
> it...i could no-way afford to pay over $100 (US/AUS?) - so thats
> about
> £60 (GBP)...hmmm....i could actually get one off ebay for less
> than
> that i thinks...so nope sorry dude!
> 
> hope you find someone that does want the computers ;)
> 
> veganalex
> 
> PS. - is there a java dos environment for mobile phones
> (preferably
> sony ericsson), i would love to work on something like this to
> have
> gem running on a phone (weird it may be...but probably rather
> useful
> ;) )
> 
> 
> On 21/06/06, Thomas Clayton <topcatdrc at yahoo.com> wrote:
> > Dear Veg:
> >
> > In my case, an IBM PS/2 Mdl 25-286 was the first PC-compatable
> > BOUGHT(!). (I'd had PC-PCs and PC-XTs in the house earlier.
> They
> > were scavenged from dump-bins - the 30ft x 12ft x 8ft tall
> 'trays'
> > that fit onto truck trailers - from firms moving out of the
> office
> > park.) Still have it but not for much longer! What would it
> cost to
> > get it to you, I wonder? ~40lbs to England. Over 100$, I'd
> guess.
> > Oh well. Loved to have found a GOOD home for it.
> >
> > Got a PS/2 55sx upgraded to an 80488x2 MCA system as well. Its
> > going, too, fairly soon.
> >
> >
> > TomC
> >
> > --- veganalex <veganalex at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > hmmm...i know that it would have cost a hell of alot...but
> that
> > > does
> > > secure it that it was the total wrong computer at the time to
> > > buy...but its happened...and it can't be changed
> now...so....i'll
> > > have
> > > a good look on it when i get it out in the autumn (far too
> hot to
> > > be
> > > playing with old eletricals that could end up going up in a
> pile
> > > of
> > > smoke because of the heat!), to find a date of purchase/date
> when
> > > made.
> > >
> > > hehe that's a difference of...47years! - thats a big age gap
> > > anyway
> > >
> > > veganalex
> > >
> > > On 21/06/06, Peter Green <pspete1 at pnc.com.au> wrote:
> > > >
> > > >  G'day!
> > > >
> > > >  I had an Amstrad briefly, but can't remember if it was a
> 1512
> > > or a 5086.
> > > > Both were sold in Australia. Someone rescued it from a skip
> and
> > > passed it on
> > > > to me, but I sent it off soon afterwards to some recycling
> or
> > > charity
> > > > organisation because I had no use for it. It worked, but
> wasn't
> > > a patch on
> > > > my 286 with an SVGA monitor and a 40MB HDD. I also have
> 5-1/4"
> > > floppies
> > > > containing Amstrad's GEM (v1.2?), but got those separately.
> I
> > > sent the
> > > > content of these disks to Robert Avis (anyone know what
> became
> > > of him?) who
> > > > posted them to his site.
> > > >
> > > >  I was interested to hear that Amstrads were sold in the US
> > > under the
> > > > Sinclair brand. My first contact with Sinclair was through
> a
> > > semi-kitform
> > > > stereo amplifier, which used an unconventional audio output
> > > system.
> > > > Unfortunately, it was not protected against high current
> draw
> > > under no load
> > > > conditions, and one channel spectacularly died when a
> speaker
> > > lead was
> > > > accidentally dislodged.
> > > >
> > > >  386 computers were certainly becoming available here by
> around
> > > 1987, as I
> > > > remember an exhibition in that year of computers and the
> use of
> > > computers at
> > > > the Theological College I was attending, and a couple of
> > > students were
> > > > already using 386-based machines. Back then, though, even a
> 286
> > > was worth
> > > > about a fortnight's salary for an average professional
> > > (engineer, architect
> > > > etc) which hindered the uptake of the 386.
> > > >
> > > >  When the 386sx came out, which was able to use a variant
> of
> > > the less
> > > > complex architecture of the 286-style motherboard, it
> became a
> > > quite viable
> > > > purchase.
> > > >
> > > >  I'm one of the older contributors, I think... 60 this
> year.
> > > >
> > > >  Peter
> > > >
> > > >
> > > >  Thomas Clayton wrote:
> > > >  Dear Veganlex:
> > ...<cut out>...
> >
> > Sincerely,
> >
> > Thomas Clayton
> >
> >
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