[Liverpool] Retro Computing

[Bob Ham]

On Fri, 2009-02-06 at 10:00 +0000, Andrew Williams wrote:
> So my question is, does anyone on the list have a obsession with a
> certain old bit of kit? What do you guys love to faff with?

I still have my Spectrum +2A [0] which I wouldn't like to give up.  It
was my first computer :-)  I have an Amiga 600 as well.  I also have an
Amstrad 1640 [1] with a _30MB_ hard disk.  And it's on an 8-bit ISA
card, too.  As in, the hard disk is attached to the 12"-or-so-long
card :-)  A while back, I plugged the card into a pentium machine that
had appropriate ISA slots and the thing miraculously booted into the DOS
3.1 OS.

Bob


[0] http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/6/6a/Spectrum_128-2.png
[1] http://pchistory.ru/wp-content/amstrad2.JPG

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