25-10-2011, 08:31 AM
It's funny when I think of the tings scrapped.. they were either "workhorse" stacks or specific "nice examples" in showroom condition all original.
Mark will remember coming to the house and seeing the pile of 80's and 90's computer books all piled up. It's strange now only having 5 towers instead of 100 or so, and losing my stockpile of spares has been a little annoying. People don't seem to throw out scrap electronics round here and the back street gates have been the death knell for finding vintage electronics put out.
I guess I was one of the lucky ones never owning a BBC (lucky?) as father in one of his mad moments arrived home one Saturday lunchtime with a complete PDP-8 on the back of a flatbed which we spent the afternoon dragging down to the cellar and setting up. That would have been 78/79 and after a lot of messing around we finally got it going. If that had survived the relocation at the end of 80 no doubt my future would have been very different from the music business career and then politics which kept me employed from 81 right through to my last "proper" job in 1999
Mark will remember coming to the house and seeing the pile of 80's and 90's computer books all piled up. It's strange now only having 5 towers instead of 100 or so, and losing my stockpile of spares has been a little annoying. People don't seem to throw out scrap electronics round here and the back street gates have been the death knell for finding vintage electronics put out.
I guess I was one of the lucky ones never owning a BBC (lucky?) as father in one of his mad moments arrived home one Saturday lunchtime with a complete PDP-8 on the back of a flatbed which we spent the afternoon dragging down to the cellar and setting up. That would have been 78/79 and after a lot of messing around we finally got it going. If that had survived the relocation at the end of 80 no doubt my future would have been very different from the music business career and then politics which kept me employed from 81 right through to my last "proper" job in 1999
