If I would have known!!! WOW I would have just read more posts before I posted my first post look at this mess... There is no reason for people to be rude or disrespectful to new people like myself. I have never joined a place like this I know now that it has been said 1000000000000 times to scroll down and put my text there all I wanted to do was talk about my new Commodore 64's. Can we do that? I make a post about creepy pastas and all I got was made fun of? Do yall not want new people to join? I think I can learn a lot from here that's all I want to do! There are many Computer geniuses on here that I can learn a lot from that's what I'm interested in and I like Creepypasta's and I collect Honda ATC 3wheelers. But can we get back on track with the Commodore 64?
Much love for the plastic micros from the 80s, at least with me! Some people are into the larger DIGITAL Equipment Corp stuff (PDPs, Vaxes) and other large systems. I used to be big into Unix workstation hardware, including big ones so went up through lots of them until I hit the mountaintop with Cray stuff. It's so heavy and no permanant place for it so these days I prefer it when I can put 3 systems into a plastic tub.
I'm involved with a music and gaming festival (the music is mostly video game music) and we've spawned a computer museum as a come-back side project. This year I think there was about 32 to 34 systems out which include classic Macintosh stuff (Something personally I'm not a fan of outside of the case designs), a NeXT, some Atari ST, Atari 8 bit, Color Computer 2 or 3, Apple II, Apple IIGS, 8088 IBM PC, 80286, 80386, 80486. I think Mike had 2 of the later PCs (the 486es) on thinnet running Doom over IPX/SPX.
Next year the computer museum space is around 3000 square feet and I think they're going to bring more like 100 to 120 machines (not sure.) I've offered them my Octane, Indigo, NeXT, Sun Voyager, Atari Mega 2, Atari 520ST (need a mouse), Atari TT030 (need a mouse), Amiga 500, (probably hold bcak Amiga 600 it's so small it makes me nervous), C64, Dolch PAC luggable PC w/ Gravis Ultrasound, and some other stuff. Gave away the Model 4 TRS-80 but it should be coming. They've got a lot of the plastic microcomputer stuff covered until you hit fringe stuff like Mattel Aquarius and import machines. I did meet locals that import Russian and other MSX clones but don't have solid enough contact information to get any of it (might need to run an inverter to generate 50hz power and PAL TVs for that stuff.)
Friends have all sorts of stuff, and some things might be coming like a X68000 (for the Castlevania fans :-) and MSX and other fun things.
Anyways, where was I. Oh yea. Much love for the Micros, but different people came up at different times. My only CPM box is a beautiful IMSAI 8080 -- which I keep covered. Still building the S100 CF card.
Check out the C64 SD adapters or the XA1541 if you haven't. -- Ethan O'Toole
