[geeks] Looking for Hardware

[Lionel Peterson]

>From: Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com>
>Date: 2007/06/02 Sat AM 08:14:15 CDT
>To: The Geeks List <geeks at sunhelp.org>
>Subject: Re: [geeks] Looking for Hardware

>Lionel Peterson wrote:
>>> Please let me know if you have this hardware you wouldn't mind letting 
>>> go for a small sum of money, or if you know where I might be able to 
>>> find any of this hardware cheap.  Thanks.
>>>
>>> IBM XT-286 Motherboard (I have a dead one that needs replacing)
>>> Kingston SX Now! 386 upgrade (For my beloved PS/2 Mod 50)
>>> Any AT-class memory boards (including EMS ones, obviously XMS preferred)
>> 
>> Good golly, background information please - why are these older machines 
so important?
>
>The XT-286 isn't particularly important to me, it's just something I 
>want to play with.  The memory board(s) will go with it.
>
>The PS/2 was my first PC.  In fact, it was my first computer, after my 
>father's PDP-11/70.  It holds a special place in my heart.
>
>I collect classic computers.  There's actually a few of us on these 
>lists.  (Including Mr. Bill, I presume?)

No slight intended, it's just they are not really "special" in any 
conventional way (as far as convention goes on this list).

Your reasons remind me of a touching scene in a reasonable movie I've seen a 
few times - throw momma from the train - in the movie, Owen (played by Danny 
Devito) has a very special coin collection. The coins are just random 
pennies, nickles, dimes and quarters, but they are the coins he got when his 
father let him "keep the change"...

Lionel