by WelshWizard on Fri Nov 18, 2011 8:48 am
Found the U tub link better, that's where I could see my self better described , and after thinking about it I think I may be as nutty as some of them , started collecting old motorcycles back in the late 70's which left me with around 36 old motorcycles BSA, Triumph , Norton, RE's being the main ones but also other makes, Sold most of them when I moved to SA, due to high cost of moving them, but did keep the BSA and Norton, so I collected Beta Video tapes when there, this changed into VHS tapes, then moved to NZ remaining Motorcycles came with plus the Video collection, DVD arrived so stared collecting them instead of VHS, all along my trusty Atari 8 bits had moved with me, ( I did not consider myself a collector of old computers, as I still had use for them.) also got back into collecting Motorcycles so back up to about 34 also mainly BSA Norton and Triumph ( however the wife is a nutty about them as me so no problem, also no problem with collecting the DVDs as they take less space than the Video tapes which I cleared out most of recently to make space, which lead to me finding my old 8 bit stuff stored in the attic, curious to find out if it still worked it was powered up ( dead meat, it all came flooding back and so I started to look around for other 8 bit stuff only to find that there were plenty of web sites out there that now supported what had some years ago died away through lack of support) Due to the aggro between C= and Atari fans ( mines the best crap) I decided to find out what the C= was really like so I have acquired a few of late, C16 was the first, great now to find out how good they really are, only to find that software is hard to come by, so I acquired a C64 , then a dataset for it seems the C16 dataset is not compatible with the C64 , then a disk drive for it and a bit of software, only to find out that the darn thing would not fire into life ( power pack was dead) so now I have one on the way thanks to a member here, ( Much appreciated help) however in the mean time I have purchased a C64c with a multi sink monitor, which is now in a very dry room waiting a few weeks to make sure its is dry, as I don't know how well it was stored for the last 12 years and has not been fired up before the purchase.
So I am still waiting to compare the C= stuff with my A8 stuff, as for the ST gear I have still needs new disk drive though the one fires up to desk top this being the 520STFM which I upgraded to 1040k (that upgrade taught me how crappy the electronics were on the ST compared with the A8's that are like Brick shit houses the way they are made) As for the other 4 ST's they all need repairs to the power supply as I used them to keep the 520 going before boxing them up to the attic, Most of the IBM stuff came from the left overs of a computer company I closed down about 7 years ago.