""Are these things even worth anything to anyone?"" It would be interesting to find out! I was very involved with TI 99/4a computers. I have a ton of these and many parts. I can't give them away now. Worst investment I've ever made.
B Monk wrote: >I still have a commodore 64 and a 128 that works. Cant use it for internet and the games are slow > to load as the are on cassette tape. I did upgrade it to a floppy disk drive > after having only a tape drive for a few months. The games on disk don't work anymore. > As of now its packed into a box in the attic waiting for my kids to throw out once I pass away in about 40-50 years from now! Are these things even worth anything to anyone? > > Bill > Mystic,CT > >Mark Hersh <markhersh@MSN.COM> wrote: > On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:21:54 -0800, Paul Guzyk >wrote: > > > >>I've been using PC's since the TRS-80 days. >> >> >> > >Wow, "TRS-80." Reminds me of the blurb on the box of my Atari >800XL: "What are you going do to with all that memory?" > >It had 64K of memory. > >The Atari is long gone (gee, I miss "Eastern Front"). Now, I buy cheap PCs >from the major manufacturers' (Compaq or Dell the last two) "factory >outlet" stores. > >Yeh, Windows stinks, but my time is worth less than my money. Actually, I >have not had that much trouble with XP. The latest Dell is not showing the >3-years-then-it-turns-into-a-turd syndrome of past PCs. > >Of course, I use my work-supplied laptop (also a Dell with XP) for most >everything so the SO uses the Dell desktop. > >Doing my part to get the post count up to 142 (what's the time cutoff?) > >Mark Hersh >86 Westfalia Weekender "Monty" > > > |
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