>>>>>Actually, I could put all my antiques together for it. I have an old TI machine (TI-80?? can't remember right now), a cassette tape drive, a 1200 baud acoustic modem. I could really get rockin here!!
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>>>>Wow! 1200 baud! What I wouldn't have given for one of those. Mine was 300. An Atari system (and I still have it all, including modem, two disk drives, and a cassette drive).
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>>>I sold the old one when I got the 1200, I think it might have been a 300. I still have a receipt from when I did a RAM upgrade on my first 386. 8MB cost me $380. I replaced the 8 256k chips that were in there. I still have those, too.
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>>For some reason, I'm getting the feeling that programmers are "pack rats". I've got stuff for the old 6502 machine still hanging around and my wife keeps saying, "When are you going to throw that junk out?" Probably never.:-)
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John;

No kidding! I saw a request for a can of Log Cabin Syrup from 1936. 1935 would not do! Are you serious? I presume they wanted it empty. I remember those tins when I was 3, about the time my father returned from the South Pacific after WWII. Somehow I cannot consider my mother saving junk like that.

By the way – I got rid of all my computer “junk”. I do not even save an extra screw anymore – if I need something I buy it, and use it immediately. The excess gets tossed out. We went from a 1750 square foot house to a 1200 foot so I learned my lesson!!!

Tom