** Rob Malpass <rob@???> [2007-11-04 12:30]:
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Paul Tansom" <paul@???>
> To: "Rob Malpass" <rob@???>
> Sent: Sunday, November 04, 2007 2:06 AM
> Subject: Re: [Hampshire] [OT] Amiga demos
>
> >** Rob Malpass <rob@???> [2007-11-03 16:57]:
> >>Just sorting through some stuff and amongst other things I was close to
> >>chucking out was my old Amiga 500. Flipping through my old disks, I
> >>found
> >>a few demos - things like Dolphin Dreams from 1991. It got me wondering
> >>if this "art" has died out.... Are there such things as graphics and
> >>sound
> >>demos nowdays? I'd guess since "standard hardware" such as the Amiga
> >>died
> >>out - so has the "demo", but thought I'd ask.
> >** end quote [Rob Malpass]
> >
> >I hope that was only 'close to chucking out' and didn't actually happen.
> >I'm sure you'd regret actually getting rid of it. Of course if you are
> >actually chucking it then let me know when and where and I'll stand
> >between you and the bin ;)
>
> I didn't in the end. I find it difficult to part with old (and arguably
> classic) hardware. I've just dumped (via Freecycle) some circa 1996-1998
> hardware (Pentium 1s, Pentium 2s etc) but I can't bring myself to dump my
> old 486DX2-50 (1st PC I ever owned) nor my Amiga, nor indeed my Acorn
> Electron or BBC Micro. I still harbour delusions of getting an original
> +3 interface for my Electron!
** end quote [Rob Malpass]
Good stuff, I'm much the same and have taken several car loads of stuff
across to Jamie's over the past few years. I have ditched my first ever
desktop PC, which was a home build AMD DX4/100, although I do still have
the SCSI card I used in it (and in use) and my AWE32 is still in a box
somewhere.
My first ever PC was an IBM L40 laptop and I haven't had the heart to
ditch that, in fact I'd like to get hold of two things for it one day.
One is the cable that goes between it and a docking box thingy which
takes an ISA card (I salvaged that from work but couldn't find the
cable) and the other is a 387sl20 coprocessor which I could never afford
at the time.
I won't list out my retro collection, I'm sure I've done it in the past!
I've recently acquired another Acorn Archimedes and a BBC Micro with a
Viglen cartridge adapter and ROM blower (by the looks of it) - oh and a
3.1 version kickstart to go in one of my Amiga 1500s! If I ever get the
time I hope to get some of the old machines networked, the Amigas
(thankfully I have a couple of Zorro NICs, and a compatible PCMCIA NIC)
and my RiscPC are the candidates - all I need is the spare time, and
that isn't looking likely in the near future :(
As an aside, I've no idea what happened, but for those puzzled it looks
as though my reply went direct instead of to the list!
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