Vintage Computers

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Vintage Computers

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No this is not a comparision (you all know I have an '81 Osborne, that thing pwns in age!), this is really what are some good vintage/retro computers. I've been looking at some of them recently. Esspeally the Apple II family and the good old TRS-80 Model 100. Mainly as a result of the book "Apple I replica creation 'Back to the Garage'" and an artical in Invention Technology magazine.

Also I know Triton is going to come in and say that Amiga pwns all. Well I'll let it go, but really I'm more intersted in hearing about 8bit computers.

Oh and a subnote. Vintagefunworld is going down, the owner is selling off his last bits on ebay. However I found a place that looks good for deals with vintage computers and video games, it's here
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Post by Sword_Gun »

Commador 64, Wasnt that 8 bits?

I loved that thing like a freind... :( until I fried it :(
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Post by Triton »

amiga pwns all! lol now that ive got that out of my system. c64 is pretty cool too. any particular reason you want only 8bit? the A-1000 is a 7.16mhz motorola 68000 processor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amiga_1000 i have a few and might consider parting with one for the right price and would include a little software too! i love these thigns and would kill to have an a4000 Video toaster!
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Post by Niku-Sama »

you know i was thinking about this the other day...

i have an 80-88 and its fully functional to the best of my knowledge but i dont have any thing to boot off of...any one know where i can grab some 5 inch ms-dos floppies?
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Post by Triton »

ive got some blank 5.25 floppys if that helps, i think their 880k
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Post by Niku-Sama »

ehhhh, i want the real ones
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