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[Thomas Clayton]

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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