[geeks] Hello, my name is Ken, and I am a...

[Geoff Reed]

I have a couple old IICX's floating around, and one of them has a 68030-40? 
accellerator board in it...

At 11:40 AM 5/9/01 -0500, you wrote:
>Tugrul Galatali wrote:
>
> > On Tue, 8 May 2001, Ken Hansen wrote:
> >
> > > This morning, on my way in to work, the town my office is in is 
> having a "big pick-up" (this is when the trash man will take away 
> anything *reasonable* left on the curb, i.e. no water heaters). On my 
> short jaunt through town I counted no less than 5 IBM XT/AT clones 
> stacked next to various trash piles, and I was tempted to stop and take a 
> look. There was also a Mac IIx (yes, I got close enough to see the model 
> number)...
> > >
> > > I have a problem.
> > >
> >
> >         I somehow managed to spot a RS/6000 in a heap of trash as the 
> elevator
> > doors closed on the 3rd floor of the Math/CS building at NYU. I went 
> back in
> > the evening hours and brought it back to the ACM office. Its labelled as a
> > PowerServer 340, and it seems complete on the inside. I'm somewhat 
> freaked I've
> > gotten to this point and I'm only 19 with minimal experience with random
> > hardware :) But those RS/6000s do have a distinctive color/texture =P
>
>I'm just turning 20 this month.
>I am starting my own collection of old hardware.  The only limit on x86 I 
>have is that I will never take a 386 or earlier.  Maybe fun to actually 
>get running but not worth the effort IMHO.  I actually just trashed an old 
>Gateway 286/386 POS ( it had a 286 bios and a 386 CPU.  Could take either 
>apperantly ).
>I personally am looking for a Mac 68k to kick around.  These things make 
>great terminals.  I would love to get a II or III CI ( CI?  Maybe thats 
>it.  CX? VX?  The really thin one : ) for a terminal and basically a 
>learning machine.
>I'll take just about any Mac I can find ( depending on the case design ).
>Just about any 486 ( depending on the case design ).
>Really my only requirement is the design of the case. ;-)
>
>sim
>
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