Nerdish side hobbies, Was: Re: Slightly OT

[vze22jzr@verizon.net (Marc Getty)]

I still have my AT&T PC 6300 (actually made by Olivetti in Italy) with
it's super-duper 8086 CPU (not the wimpy 8088). It has a full 640 KB
of RAM, dual 360 KB floppy drives, CGA video, *AND* a 20 MB "hard
card" hard drive that I have MS-DOS v. 5.0 and WordPerfect v. 5.1
installed on.

Back when I first started college I sold XTs (IBMs, Zeniths, and
AT&Ts) that I would recondition from dumpster diving. I charged $100
for an XT with hard drive full of software, a 9 pin dot matrix
printer, and a 7 day warranty! "Cheaper then a Typewriter" was my
gimmick, and it worked, I must have sold 30 of them in less then a
year.

-Marc

'87 Tornado Red 16v Bogged Scirocco @ 235K miles
http://getty.net/scirocco/=20
'02 Mercedes-Benz C230 Kompressor Sports Coupe -
http://getty.net/c230k/
    in Heliodongr=FCn (Citron Green) took European Delivery in May 2002,
    state-side delivery on July 19, 2002, currently at 20,300 miles
=20

-----Original Message-----
From: scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org
[mailto:scirocco-l-admin@scirocco.org] On Behalf Of Joe Doty
Sent: Thursday, March 06, 2003 11:21 AM
To: Adam J Garside; scirocco-l@scirocco.org
Subject: RE: Nerdish side hobbies, Was: Re: Slightly OT


> Amstrad pc2086 (8mhz processor, 640k RAM, 30mb HDD)

Holy beejeez Batman, never thought I'd see one of these again.  When I
was about 13 my dad brought home two of these that were broken, and I
made one whole one.  Kinda pissed that I sold it now, $50 at a yard
sale...

Also, I did a bad thing last night.  Started playing a MUD again :(

Joe Doty
IT/Development
joe@lcnetwork.com=20



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