"Ophelia" <Ophelia@Elsinore.me.uk> wrote in message
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>> "Ophelia" <Ophelia@Elsinore.me.uk> wrote in message
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>>>>> On Tue, 12 Jan 2010 12:24:41 +0000 (UTC), Alexis Machine
>>>>> <no@email.you.moron> wrote:
>>>>>>On 12 Jan 2010, Tom Lake wrote:
>>>>>>> You're probably being facetious but there really are people
>>>>>>> who log into their ISP's shell account and surf the Web
>>>>>>> from a 64!
>>>>>>I know. I read something about that a few years ago. I wish I had
>>>>>>kept my last C64 just to play with. I sold it, along with 2 external
>>>>>>disk drives
>>>>>>and a box of software, for $150 on eBay.
>>>>> I got off a little better than that. I got $750 for a C64, a 1702
>>>>> monitor, one 1541 and one 1581 disk drive, and a big box of 5.25"
>>>>> floppies that I had punched to make them double sided.
>>>> Ah, a fan of unreliable diskettes! heheheheh Single-sided diskettes
>>>> are the ones that failed muster on one side....mostly, anyway.
>>>>
>>>> I'll let go of my old Commodore gear, when they pry my stiff, cold
>>>> fingers
>>>> from it. While putting the drawers back in my computer desk, I found
>>>> my
>>>> A64 device! I'd totally forgotten that I had it. Well, I'd planned to
>>>> keep one of my Amigas set up, as soon as I can figure out where to do
>>>> so...and if I recall correctly, it does an excellent job of emulating
>>>> the C64....and several of my favorite games are, as far as I am aware,
>>>> C64
>>>> only.
>>>
>>> heh you still have all those??? My first putee was a Radio Shack
>>> thingie and I had to type in my proggies and then save them to an audio
>>> tape)
>>
>> I rarely let any of my gear leave me...I'm at least a third generation
>> packrat.
>>
>> From the very first computer I bought, I've had disk drives. I guess I'm
>> just spoiled. On the other hand, my Sol, and my Exidy Sorcerer both use
>> cassette. I've never actually gotten around to setting either of them
>> up, but I fully intend to play with them, someday.
>
> Enjoy My packrat days are well and truly over) I am decluttered,
> tidy, and wondering were all me stuffie 'as gorn
To be honest, I'm hoping the same for myself. We just bought our first
house at the beginning of December, and finally having a place big enough
for us AND our stuff, we plan to get rid of anything we don't need/want, and
organize, organize, organize. We finally have a large library, a large den
for me, and a large sewing room for my wife....and 3/4 basement, and a
shed/garage (garage doors were replaced with smaller doors) with an arched
roof. We'll build a quonset hut garage, sitting just in front of the shed.
If we can't leave packratting behind, it'd suck hard.
>>> O, willie waving <g> (Well, if I had one.. if you see what I mean)
>>
>> In the breeze, as it were?
>>
>> Let the wind blow high and the wind blow low
>> Through the streets in my kilt I go
>> All the lassies cry, "Hello!
>> Donald, where's your trousers?"
>
> LOLOL 'Troosers' hecktewally)
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