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[veganalex]

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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