Which classic computing community is craziest?

[B00tDisk]

Anyone who is nostalgiac for old PCs and old Macs is definately crazy.

You need to get out more.

[stopthegop]

@ B00tdisk:

I live in New York City.  Whats more "out" than that?

[AeroMan]

stopthegop wrote:
Classic computers are cool..  here's one I'd personally love to own.    

WOW !!! QL compatible qith a 68060 !!!! This is really cool !

[leirbag28]

@Tahoe


Dude........et those machines away from that Sun roof!  they are all gonna get yellow........the progression will be slow, so you might not notice it overtime.  And by gosh.........Sell some of those A500's!  Share the wealth...............we need more Amigans..............not Amigans with more Amigas! :-)

[krize]

I think Amiga, still using the machines for all use (intenet,mp3,chat,etc etc)..

And those Amiga freaks that still belive in the "comeback"

[Tahoe]

leirbag28 wrote:
Dude........et those machines away from that Sun roof!  they are all gonna get yellow........the progression will be slow, so you might not notice it overtime.  And by gosh.........Sell some of those A500's!  Share the wealth...............we need more Amigans..............not Amigans with more Amigas! :-)

Don't worry, the sun roof is closed (special darkening curtain), and those 500's (and everything in de middle of the floor) is going to McVenco and Darule. (they bought it, I keep it in storage temporarily)

[Colani1200]

leirbag28 wrote:

we need more Amigans..............not Amigans with more Amigas!

This is all eBays fault :lol:

[McVenco]

Tahoe wrote:

leirbag28 wrote:
Dude........et those machines away from that Sun roof!  they are all gonna get yellow........the progression will be slow, so you might not notice it overtime.  And by gosh.........Sell some of those A500's!  Share the wealth...............we need more Amigans..............not Amigans with more Amigas! :-)

Don't worry, the sun roof is closed (special darkening curtain), and those 500's (and everything in de middle of the floor) is going to McVenco and Darule. (they bought it, I keep it in storage temporarily)

And when I have picked up my part of the pile at Tahoe's (it's "only" a few A2000s and A500s, the rest is Tahoe's own collection :-) ), I will put a decent amount of TLC into my collection (making clean and working machines from all of them), and then sell a lot of it (I think I'll keep 4, 5 Amigas max.).

But I doubt that any of those miggies I'll be selling will go to new or returning Amigans. Most of them probably will go to someone else with quite a few Amigas.... :-)


But I agree with leirbag. I will have some 15 or 16 Amigas when I pick up the stuff at Tahoe. And that, indeed, is WAY too much for one single person :lol:

[spihunter]

I think the Amiga & RiscOS folks come in at a tie for craziest.

I just saw a CyberstormPPC on ebay go for almost $1000
Thats just f$%^&*& insane.

have you seen the prices of the RiscOS PC's? thats just about as wacky.

[countzero]

what about amstrad folks ? They have an excellent kick ass OS which will put most 32 bit OS'es to shame ...

http://www.symbos.de/

also atari folks have some excellent hardware (060 + SDRAM + PCI expansion possibility). But what are they running on this ? does anyone know if they have a decent OS ? CSS compatible webbrowser ?

http://www.czuba-tech.com/CT60/english/overview.htm

[AmiGR]

G3 with MacOS9: abandoned, browser choices much worse than Amiga.

Eh? Mozilla 1.3.1, Internet Explorer 5.5. Please tell me which Amiga browser is better than either of those.

[hardlink]

spihunter wrote:

I just saw a CyberstormPPC on ebay go for almost $1000
Thats just f$%^&*& insane.

Really? When items start selling for more than they cost new, then you are in a wacky phase. The CyberstormPPC 060 sold new for more than that. A measly $1000 - I paid that for my 68040 WarpEngine!

[Agafaster]

So wheres the equivalent place to this (our own venerated AO i mean !) for ... say... the ZX scene(s) ?

and has someone done a SuperCPU equivalent for the Speccy ?

[TjLaZer]

What I understood the OP asked was which vintage platform was the most expensive not which type or users are craziest.

I would think the Amiga is the craziest cost but then again Atari ST a very very close call too. (with regards to their TT030, STE and Falcon machines)

Atari 8 bits and C=64/128 are CHEAP to get into.  Maybe a C=65 or 128D will cost a few hundred or more, but for the most part are very inexpensive to get into.

[AeroMan]

Agafaster wrote:
So wheres the equivalent place to this (our own venerated AO i mean !) for ... say... the ZX scene(s) ?

and has someone done a SuperCPU equivalent for the Speccy ?

This is very close : (I just love it, tons of files)

http://www.worldofspectrum.org/

I don't know about a Super CPU equivalent, but you can get a Sprinter. And there where loads of other Russian clones with tons of features. What about the SAM Coupé ? That was really nice.

[Tenacious]

@ AmiGR

I suppose it's a matter of opinion.  My G3 has IE 5.5 and Netscape (whatever the last compatible version was).  Very often images won't dispay, sites stop loading and insist that I upgrade the browser.  Both browsers seem to just give up at any provication.  Maybe I need to learn to setup this software better.

On the otherhand, those same sites usually load very well in iBrowse 2.4.  I probably don't frequent the most demanding sites (I use the net as an encyclopedia, not much for entertainment), but, except for those that rely heavily on the latest flash, I've never seen iBrowse just give up.  
I think Amigans are lucky to have the browsers we do have.

How does Mozilla compare to IE and Netscape?