So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.
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Shit, an old ass Honeywell mini. That's something you don't see every day.
If you were closer, I would take that one off your hands for $10. Shipping on that monster would cost a fortune, not worth it to come back to Texas. With the number of dumb terminals, there might be some other mini/mainframe stuff in there. But that's very niche and not worth a lot.
Most of the other stuff is cleanable and sellable. The TI-99/4a, TRS-80 and VIC20 are easy money. The PS/2 stuff, not so much.
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@PSX_Defector said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:
The PS/2 stuff, not so much.
Actually I have pretty much sold all 3 of them. Surprisingly they are very popular machines.
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@PSX_Defector said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:
Shit, an old ass Honeywell mini. That's something you don't see every day.
If you were closer, I would take that one off your hands for $10. Shipping on that monster would cost a fortune, not worth it to come back to Texas. With the number of dumb terminals, there might be some other mini/mainframe stuff in there. But that's very niche and not worth a lot.
Most of the other stuff is cleanable and sellable. The TI-99/4a, TRS-80 and VIC20 are easy money. The PS/2 stuff, not so much.
That PS/2 was the first computers in the computer lab in school. Ah, the memories of good old DOS, Netware Server, and that coax 10BASE2.
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I wonder how much $$$$ the guy paid for storage...
$60 a month x 12 x 20 =$14400
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Was that the ti 99 and the xt expansion unit? That was my first "PC"
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Wow awesome find!
Brings back many memories!
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I wish that I had room for like half of that stuff!
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@Harry-Lui said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:
I wonder how much $$$$ the guy paid for storage...
$60 a month x 12 x 20 =$14400
I think the problem was that he didn't pay, hence the OP's buyout
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@Tim_G said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:
@Harry-Lui said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:
I wonder how much $$$$ the guy paid for storage...
$60 a month x 12 x 20 =$14400
I think the problem was that he didn't pay, hence the OP's buyout
I doubt no payment for 20 years. Probably just this year, owner probably kicked the bucket.
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@MattSpeller said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:
@jrc said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:
I've never actually used either TBH. I came up on IBM and IBM clones.
Ditto, 486DX2!
486DX2 80 MHrtz was my first x86 PC
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@JaredBusch said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:
@MattSpeller said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:
@jrc said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:
I've never actually used either TBH. I came up on IBM and IBM clones.
Ditto, 486DX2!
486DX2 80 MHrtz was my first x86 PC
That CBM PET was mine, 1979.
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@JaredBusch said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:
@MattSpeller said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:
@jrc said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:
I've never actually used either TBH. I came up on IBM and IBM clones.
Ditto, 486DX2!
486DX2 80 MHrtz was my first x86 PC
That was the first one we had at home. I used those classic green screen things to write papers for school before that, because those "nice" PS/2 computers in the lab were always locked away in the room.
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The first computer we had at school was an Apple ][c that my mother donated to the school.
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486DX2 66mhz was my first. A good friend had the 386.
Fun days. -
My first was a 486 dx 33mhz with 4mb ram
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Please tell me I wasn't the only one that had a special boot floppy made just to eek enough memory to run that one program that really needed all 4MB of memory?
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@travisdh1 said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:
Please tell me I wasn't the only one that had a special boot floppy made just to eek enough memory to run that one program that really needed all 4MB of memory?
Nope, I had spent a ton of time getting my memory config right. I remember I had it booting up completely with 620Kb of the 640k free as I had managed to push everything into the upper memory area,
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@jrc said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:
@travisdh1 said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:
Please tell me I wasn't the only one that had a special boot floppy made just to eek enough memory to run that one program that really needed all 4MB of memory?
Note, I had spent a ton of time getting my memory config right. I remember I had it booting up completely with 620Kb of the 640k free as I had managed to push everything into the upper memory area,
Yep, I remember spending hours on the main system and trying to optimize it. I remember having one game that no matter how well optimized the main system was. It was so close on what it used that removing the cdrom driver from the boot configs allowed it to run. Finding out about virtual memory was the best thing ever.
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@travisdh1 said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:
Please tell me I wasn't the only one that had a special boot floppy made just to eek enough memory to run that one program that really needed all 4MB of memory?
I had to do that to play Sim City 2000 on DOS5
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mmmmm RAM defraging
