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Previously on "How long to hoard stuff?"

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  • Peoplesoft bloke
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    iMac
    Two analogue video recorders
    TV with built in VCR (probably hasn't been switched on in a year)
    2500 old vinyl records and three turntables
    56k external Modem
    but, saving the best till last

    Video Genie

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  • RSoles
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    zyzygy surely.

    I ported ISIS-II to a 1MHz Z-80 based 'home computer' of my own design, built from components.

    2x 8" drives. PSU you could weld with. 16k RAM, 16k EPROM.
    Weighed a ton.
    Best bit was when I wired the RAM board so it would write to RAM with bits 0-7 but read bits 7-0 i.e transposed MSB to LSB. Oh how I laughed....

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  • RSoles
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    Originally posted by zeitghost

    I think there's a couple of 8" drives in the shed too...
    ...just preparing for CP/M to make a comeback. Or was it Intel ISIS-II?

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  • Diver
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    Originally posted by TimberWolf View Post
    Zzzzzzzzzymotic.

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  • TimberWolf
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    Originally posted by Diver View Post
    Nah! it was Zymotic
    Zzzzzzzzz.

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  • Diver
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    Originally posted by RichardCranium View Post
    In case you didn't make it to the end, it was the aardvark that did it.
    Nah! it was Zymotic

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  • RichardCranium
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    Originally posted by Diver View Post
    I have several English dictionaries too!

    Started to read them, but the plots were all the same
    In case you didn't make it to the end, it was the aardvark that did it.

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  • RichardCranium
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    Last time I played the I'm-sadder-than-you game at work, I played my "I still have my flowchart stencil" card. Everyone else in the room opened their desk drawer and pulled out theirs.

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  • Diver
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    Dunno.

    I think there's a couple of 8" drives in the shed too...

    I hope they aren't under the leaky bit of the roof.
    I have several English dictionaries too!

    Started to read them, but the plots were all the same

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  • Diver
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    I've got several boxes...
    Why does that post make me feel so uncomfortable

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  • darmstadt
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    I've got loads of those old IBM green cards (and other colours) including such ones as IBM 360 Assembler registers (and the training manual in German,) hexadecimal translation, PROFS users and a load of crap in my office but occasionally something comes in useful

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  • Bod
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    Originally posted by Diver View Post
    I've got an 8" floppy
    Call Pfizer...

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  • RSoles
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    I've got a board with core memory on it.
    Hand-crafted little magnetic cores threaded together with wires.

    Damn, I vowed not to keep getting involved in these sadder-than-you threads.

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  • Diver
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    Originally posted by Bod View Post
    Until a couple of years ago, I still had an old IBM system 36 in the cellar at home - it kept the house warm.

    Took 7 of us to get the bugger out of the house.

    Still have an 8" floppy drive in the attic....
    I've got an 8" floppy

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  • Bod
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    Until a couple of years ago, I still had an old IBM system 36 in the cellar at home - it kept the house warm.

    Took 7 of us to get the bugger out of the house.

    Still have an 8" floppy drive in the attic....

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