Ah! I've always wanted to play with a Crimson... ever since I saw them being used for visualization at the Army Corp of Engineers back in the early 90's. I was working in a different group and never got to use them. Not even sure where to look for one nowadays.
Todd Killingsworth. On Thu, May 19, 2016 at 4:57 PM, Austin Pass <austinp...@gmail.com> wrote: > Swift's thread on the "ones that got away" got me thinking about another > source of guilt/regret common to the classic computer collector: > > Systems we've neglected or failed to boot recently. > > I've had a re-jig of my storage, and whilst it was great to uncover gems > that I'd forgotten I even had, it also brought some regrets for the systems > I've neglected - lots of them not booted in 10 years or more. > > Because they were easily accessible I pulled out my Colour Classic and G4 > Cube (is the latter on-topic through the "10 year rule" or are we sticking > to pre-millenials?): > > https://www.dropbox.com/s/2c70f4flucjo3f6/IMG_7576.jpg?dl=0 > > Quick check-over and they both booted just fine! > > The systems I'm feeling really guilty over neglecting are: > > SGI Crimson VGX (skins perfect but needs some TLC before power-on) > Micro PDP 11/83 (same) > Maxed-out Acorn A3000 (my home-brew external SCSI Podule needs finishing) > > And I have a vast box of Sinclair Specturm games on tape that would > probably take the rest of the year to load if I fired up my +2 and played > them sequentially! > > -Austin. >
