scriptguru
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Hi everyone,
I owned soviet-made ZX Spectrum as a kid (sold it for pennies when I was young and... less considerate) and a Chinese-made clone of NES, and was hooked up ever since.
Sometimes I find something interesting (TI 99/4a, for instance), fix and sell it.
Sometimes I keep what I find, because it's just too cool to sell.
Just recently I got 2x TRS-80 Model 100 (two different models - different RAM amount), 2x Jupiter ACE and 3x 16K memory modules for them.
Haven't tested ACEs yet, but one of TRS-80 works fine, and one needs fixing. Going to keep both TRS-80 and sell all the Jupiter ACE stuff (or maybe keep one of them... we'll see).
Of course, I've played with emulators a lot. But there is huge appeal in vintage hardware - especially hardware that is relatively easy to understand and fix.
Besides traditional computers, I'm very much interested in programmable calculators, vintage slide rules, and mechanical calculators. I don't have many of them, but they are joy to own and use.
I owned soviet-made ZX Spectrum as a kid (sold it for pennies when I was young and... less considerate) and a Chinese-made clone of NES, and was hooked up ever since.
Sometimes I find something interesting (TI 99/4a, for instance), fix and sell it.
Sometimes I keep what I find, because it's just too cool to sell.
Just recently I got 2x TRS-80 Model 100 (two different models - different RAM amount), 2x Jupiter ACE and 3x 16K memory modules for them.
Haven't tested ACEs yet, but one of TRS-80 works fine, and one needs fixing. Going to keep both TRS-80 and sell all the Jupiter ACE stuff (or maybe keep one of them... we'll see).
Of course, I've played with emulators a lot. But there is huge appeal in vintage hardware - especially hardware that is relatively easy to understand and fix.
Besides traditional computers, I'm very much interested in programmable calculators, vintage slide rules, and mechanical calculators. I don't have many of them, but they are joy to own and use.
