retro collection on ebay

[Ni72ous]

Anyone seen this little lot http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=2735153817&category=162 on ebay?

[redrumloa]

TOO bad it isnt in the US.

[Effy]

Seems like you need to hire a container if you don't live in the UK and can not pick it up yourself ...
Sorry for asking but there seems to be a little gap in my knowledge, what is an Archimedes ?? What processor ? What possibilities ??

[lorddef]

The Acorn Archimedies used  the old ARM RISC processors, surely you had some of these in your school if you were in the UK. RiscOS was dam nasty.

[alx]

It looks like this model, with an ARM 2 processor at 4/8 Mhz.

The Acorns were really popular over here in schools, but never really made it as a home computer.  They ran RiscOS, which was built into the ROM and had a few interesting features (ie a taskbar before Win95, which IMO worked better).    The graphics were average, but couldn't match Amiga (no copper, blitter etc).  AFAIK the last OS was released a few years back, and Acorn is owned by someone else.  I think they were still selling h/w then as well, but is was very custom (and extremely expensive).

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RiscOS was dam nasty.

But it's nastiness paled in comparison to what windoze was at the time :-o  Perhaps I'm biased as they were probably the second computers I ever used (1st was Amiga of course :-D ) but they always seemed OK.

[Vincent]

There's a mistake in the item list, there's no Spectrum 48ks there, they're 128k+2a(5 of them) and 128k+2b (2 of them).

I wouldn't mind getting that stuff myself, but I've no money and live way too far away :-(



@red

It's good to see that you can't hog all the good finds :-P

[Cyberus]

Went for 360 quid in the end. I reckon that whoever bought it has a grand's worth of stuff there, if he were to sell it separately on ebay....

[Vincent]

£360 is still a bargain.  I wish I could've afforded that :-(

Still, I've got some of the important computers anyway (Speccy 128k+2, Miggy 500, 1200).  All I need to get is a C64/128 :-D