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Article #85Re: Old Computers Are People Too was Re: AT PC Wanted -Perth
From: Clockmeister
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 00:00
Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 00:00
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Henry's Cat <geracen@wantree.com.au> wrote in article <78bif4$vct$1@news.wantree.com.au>... > > X-Static wrote in message <917057177.891680@hearts.q-net.net.au>... > > > >wouldn't u look like a real dick, if the person only needed an AT for > >testing something or if he was a network tech, he could make a pretty damn > >good router out of it and it would cost him next to nothing. > > > I know a taxi driver who's been using the very same Commodore 64 for close > on 20 years to do his books on. Probably using VisiCalc 64 or some such. he > has no problems although he said a hard drive would be a big help. Is there > such a thing as a C64 hard drive? > Yes. CMD still make them, SCSI I think and pretty expensive. There is also a "SuperCPU" for the C64 made by the same company. Runs at 20Mhz! There is a now OS and other stuff as well. All pretty pricey, but then CMD have the monopoly in that market as there is no-one else left who makes new hardware. Quite amazing the price some people are willing to pay upgrading ancient (relatively speaking) computers Regards, Clockmeister.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10d683,b30ee761a9cceed9 X-Google-Attributes: gid10d683,public X-Google-Thread: 1056b9,b30ee761a9cceed9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1056b9,public X-Google-Thread: 1083c4,b30ee761a9cceed9 X-Google-Attributes: gid1083c4,public X-Google-Thread: 108c83,b30ee761a9cceed9 X-Google-Attributes: gid108c83,public X-Google-Thread: 100492,b30ee761a9cceed9 X-Google-Attributes: gid100492,public From: "Clockmeister" <gerryvdb@tnet.com.au> Subject: Re: Old Computers Are People Too was Re: AT PC Wanted -Perth Date: 1999/02/15 Message-ID: <01be58ba$678ce1c0$955e0fcb@default> X-Deja-AN: 444506141 References: <36A90250.2E7D@hotmail.com> <36A90C93.6574@goulburn.net.au> <917057177.891680@hearts.q-net.net.au> <78bif4$vct$1@news.wantree.com.au> X-Complaints-To: abuse@telstra.net X-Trace: nswpull.telstra.net 919065543 203.15.94.149 (Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:59:03 EST) Organization: Telstra Big Pond Direct NNTP-Posting-Date: Mon, 15 Feb 1999 18:59:03 EST Newsgroups: wa.general,aus.computers,aus.computers.ibm-pc,aus.ads.wanted,aus.general