So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.
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5160 for me, but I did step through all the others (286, 386, 486 etc)
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Yeah, the idea of a AMD Ryzen rig with a GeForce GTX1080 built into one of those roundish terminals is interesting.
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@jrc said in So I bought an abandoned Storage unit in Paradise, CA - Tons of vinage computer stuff was inside.:
Yeah, the idea of a AMD Ryzen rig with a GeForce GTX1080 built into one of those roundish terminals is interesting.
As long as it remains filthy beige on the outside.
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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,
