[ale] OT: Woah, retro!

[Geoffrey]

Okay, do I need to dig out my 3b2 300?

Jonathan Glass (IBB) wrote:
> My parents just retrieved their furniture from long-term storage.  In it
> they found my Tandy 1000SX!  2 5.25" floppy drives and 640K of RAM!! 
> Granted, it isn't as cool your stuff...but I wonder if I can get Linux
> to run on that old 8088?
> 
> :)
> 
> Jonathan
> 
> On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 19:40, James P. Kinney III wrote:
> 
>>During a spouse unit mandated cleaning, I was required to get rid of my
>>TI 99-4A card programmable calculator with the add on memory module and
>>thermal printer unit and several plug-in program packs including
>>statistics, statics and fluid flow engineering. Her excuse to have me
>>get rid of the lot was that the battery pack was dead and the charger
>>wouldn't run it any more.
>>
>>sigh
>>
>>
>>On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 13:43, Joe wrote:
>>
>>>I got a package in the mail from my grandma today, containing assorted
>>>junk of mine that she found floating around the house. It contained
>>>the following items, among others, which I mention purely for the joy
>>>of having them back in my posession:
>>>
>>>- My Dad's Texas Instruments SR-50 scientific calculator, c. 1975. No
>>>battery pack, no adapter, no manual. This machine was the central
>>>computing engine at Dad's land-surveying business for about five
>>>years in the 70's.
>>>
>>>- My Timex/Sinclair 1000, c. 1982, Z80A, 1K RAM. With manual (!), but
>>>no power supply, alas. Anybody got a dead one with a working power
>>>supply they'd be willing to part with? I'd love to see if this thing
>>>still boots. Hmm, maybe I can pick up a workable P/S at Radio Snack...
>>>
>>>Thanks,
>>>
>>>-- Joe Knapka
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