Date   : Thu, 09 Sep 2004 23:55:32 +0100
From   : Richard Kilpatrick <oldcomputers@...>
Subject: Re: Which model do you use?

On 9 Sep 2004, at 22:46, Jules Richardson wrote:
>
> Ditto - nothing's quite as balanced as the original B in terms of
> hackability versus warm and fuzzy product!
>
> Plus you can stack no end of stuff on them, they're indestructable
> etc. :-)
>
> Hmm, I just counted up Acorn machines in the collection in my head and
> got to 45. That's somewhat disturbing! :-/ (suprisingly, nearly all of
> them actually work, too :-)

Is that including the A540? :)

I've got 50+ machines in my main listing, plus Acorns, plus NeXTStation 
(on eBay though) and NeXTCube (off ebay, fingers crossed the seller is 
alright) - mostly Apples now since all my good Acorns have been 
distributed all over the place! My preferred Acorns were/are the A410 
with ARM3 that I use for writing floppies, my BBC B+ 128K (now gone), 
and the Master - I'm reassembling one to play with the Music 5000 right 
now. I think the PSU makes it noisy - the machine I gutted for spares 
was noisy, and I'm using it's PSU.

For real warm and fuzzy computing, I use my Apple IIe platinum. It's 
not strictly identical to my old //e that I used in high school, but 
it's got a lot of horses now!

Richard

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