Gives me warm and fuzzies just hearing my 11yo A1200 purring away quietly next to my (very much sounds like an air-conditioner) AthlonXP PC. I've been made officially "between jobs" so I've had lots of time to tinker recently. I guess it all started in 1990 with two (that's me and me bro) gangly teenagers finally convincing a naive and extremely budget-conscious mum into purchasing a spanky A500 and 14" 1084S. Oh for those carefree days of running home after school to eagerly load up Speedball, Silkworm or Railroad Tycoon
Of course 4 years later I wisely used my Austudy (assistance from govt for students) back pay on a sparkling A1200 with 200Mb HDD and Final Writer. After, I found myself working with PCs. The A1200 was never forgotten, a 030/40 accelerator was tried but didn't work due to the A1200's underpowered 40W PSU (doh!). Well, there it still is. In the original case but with the help of a (giant-sized) converted XT PSU. The A1200 rests propped up above the desk so the bulging trapdoor slot can accommodate a hefty 64Mb SIMM and a warm-your-hands-over-it 68040/25 accelerator. A Hitachi 4Gb 2.5" HDD salvaged from an old Toshiba replaced the antique Westan Digital 200Mb. Together with the 040, this drive gives me a cheery 1.5Mb/s verses the old 600Kb/s. A ScanDoubler allows bloated not-meant-for-a-19" imagery whilst a 3com Etherlink III protrudes importantly from the cardslot allowing connection to my Netgear WGT624 and Alcatel ADSL modem. I never thought browsing the interest with 16 colours was so much fun
But seriously, what other computer makes it so cool to take screenshots of your desktop for show-and-tell?? Enough of me rambling on. I hope you got some of that warm and fuzziness too
Now, where was I… oh yes trying to get that blasted megedemo working. My PC buddies want a retro games night and I want some cool 90s Euro "scene" demos running
