Random Thoughts II

[Lightspeed]

Originally Posted by StN

The vintage scene is funny - goes in waves. At one stage, you would never see an Apple sunflower Mac, then there would be 3 at once.

I note there is a PS/2 8555 - 386SX is *almost* a 286

And a Compaq portable mainboard, sporting an 8088,

And a Tosh 286 portable, Amstrad PPC640 etc

but yeah, the days of an original IBM 5150 popping up, or a swathe of clones seems to be in a lull - I am embarrassed when I remember what I literally binned in the '90s - boxes and boxes of floppies, big iron flip cases and even a Sparc 5 *with* 20" display. Now I've had to go out a buy the same kind of thing again - or at least rescue it.

Commodore stuff seems to be popular now - a few garages getting cleaned out (or maybe parents passing on and kids cleaning out the house) with Vic-20s, CBM64s and Amigas everywhere. Still annoyed that a chap at the pub sought me out, and indicated he was going to dump a box of CBM gear (including a PET with disk subsystem) because he needed the room, went quiet, then came back and said I could have the lot for $1750. Yeah, nah...

I can't watch it. I have a few TradeMe alerts I never read because I know it would hurt too much.

[StN]

Originally Posted by MadMax

There's not a single 286 PC on trademe right now.

Ok, now say BeetleJuice three times...

Or "Dick Smith Super-80 in Canterbury"...

IBM5160

[Lightspeed]

Originally Posted by wazza

brah how pumped are y'all for ufc 300 this sunday
i'm pumped brah

Haven't seen it come up on IPT yet. Maybe Dana's threats worked?

Saw the last 20 seconds of the Holloway match tho, now I want to see the rest.

[Lightspeed]

Happy birthday MadMax.

[wazza]

HB

[Ab]

HB mate

[MadMax]

Oh chur