the ultimate in vintage crap

[Tony Duell]

> > 
> > Please rememebr that not all of us read our main
> > on-line. I for one 
> > download all my main, then read anf reply to it (I
> > pay for phone calls by 
> > the second (or whatever), I don't have broadband).
> > So for me to look up 
> > an e-bay item certainly involves me dialing back in
> > to my ISP and running 
> > a web browser.
> 
>  My apologies. But out of curiosity what computer do
> you run the browser off of and do you get realistic

I run lynx on this machine (the much-hacked PC/AT with a text-only 
display), of course that's text-only. When I need graphics (which is not 
often, normally to look at a data sheet or scanend service manual), I've 
been known to wander into an internet cafe. It actually works out a lot 
cheaper than a modern PC + broadband + new monitor + new 'scope + new 
logic analyser + ...


> graphics? Pardon the asking. You really need to take
> some pictures of your setup, and even do a write up. I
> have a domain now (actually have for over a year!) and
> when I set it up, I'd be more then happy to host some
> of your stuff.

There's nothing much to see. It looks like a normal PC/AT (IBM 5170). OK, 
there are other odd machines around here that are a lot more intereting 
oth to look at and to understnad.

>  Do the local newspapers, or even Wired and other
> periodicals know about you Tony??? I'm thinking they
> should.

I beelieve I got a mention (for this reason) in Popular Mechanics or 
soemthing like that.

Apart from that, I am heppy living surrounded by (old) computers, 
cameras, tools and the like. And my cat, of course. I may be a freak, and 
I am certain;y accentric, but I really don't want to become known to all 
and sundry as such. 
  
> > Just out of curiosity, why do you think an XGA card
> > is the ultimate 
> > vintage find? I can think of many things that are
> > rarer and/or more 
> > interesting.
> 
>  There's a duality to my feelings on PC/2 stuph. Hence
> the rather torturous tenuous title to my post. I'll
> just leave it at this and say an XGA is what's bound
> to make a PC/2 interesting (in my book). 
> 

That's not really my question. My point is that the PS/2, no matter 
_what_ expansion cards it has is not the ultimate vinatage computer, at 
least not to me. 

The 'Ulitimat vintage...' would be something like a PERQ 2T4, or an 
HP95C, or a prototype <foo> or... 

-tony