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Slightly OT

In a message dated 3/5/2003 11:41:02 AM Eastern Standard Time, DieingSwan writes:

> Now here's a question for you all... how many of you ALSO were the proud and 
> devoted owner of a vintage computer, when it was new? (Apple II, C=64, 
> Atari2600, Amiga, etc.) And how many still bust out and use 
> that vintage 
> computer occasionally?
> 
> Courtney (the ever-curious queen-o-the-nerds)


I still have the Vic-20 I got for X-Mas in 82 or so.  Still worked last time I plugged it in even after my teenage repair to the capacitor across the rectifier bridge I blew up in 84ish.  I had an Amiga 500 up until I sold it 5 or 6 years ago.  Ah, nostalgia...


Tom in Tucson