Still got the Commodore 128 running on the other desk. Great for quickie text editing and boots in 4 seconds ready to load and run in 80 column. Also, has a 1977 rom chip o.s. copyrighted by an unknown company called Microsoft Corporation of New Mexico. Still do not have had anyone answer my query about detachable CD burners that Redhat 8 will be useable with. Craig LeVay Oakdale On Wed, 31 Dec 2003, Bob Gilbertson wrote: > I did something similar a couple weeks ago. Cleaning out the basement, came > across my first computer, a Tandy Color Computer. Still in original box with > manuals and everything. Don't think I'd looked at it for 15 years. > Purchased it about 1981. This was a couple years before IBM got into the > PC business. Hooked it up and it fired right up. Loaded up some programs from > cassette tape (also in box :). Had forgotten how nice it was to have > < 5 seconds boot up time. uP is Motorola 6809 running at .89 Mhz. OS is Basic > by a (at that time) unknown company called Microsoft. RAM is the full 65K > addressable by the 16 bit bus. > Was kind of fun :) > > A pix of one is here: http://www.obsoletecomputermuseum.org/coco1/ > > Bob > > Samuel MacDonald wrote: > > I recently acquired an Apple ][ GS, not just the CPU unit but the whole > > package. > > > > 12 inch RGB display > > 3.5 and 5.25 inch floppy drives > > Keyboard and Mouse > > Every book and warranty card > > Original System diskettes > > The Apple stickers in the original unopened plastic bag. > > It has a memory card in it, I think it's a 1 megabyte card. > > Even the Imagewriter test page is in the documentation. > > I have the printer that was purchased with it as well. > > > > This is a one of a kind find made special by what's on the front of the > > CPU unit. > > "Woz Limited Edition" > > It all works like it was new, I'll have to test the printer but I'm sure > > it works. > > > > For me it gained special interest when I saw the name of someone I use > > to work with. He worked for Computer Land back in the day. He was the > > tech that ran the setup-test on the unit. I can trace the original > > owner, the place it was sold, and the tech that did the setup-test. > > > > I think I was meant to be in the computer junk business. I just find > > this kind of history so amazing because of the whole package. I'm > > going to setup the whole thing, with the books, and take a picture. > > > > Way off topic I know but I thought it would be fun. > > > > Sam. > > > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > _______________________________________________ TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list