Precious... my precious... On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 10:18 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I must've missed it. It seems Dean is drooling. :)
-Dave
-- Dave McGuire, AK4HZ New Kensington, PA
On October 25, 2017 9:53:45 PM Jason Howe via vcf-midatlantic <vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
I sent a message to this very list on 08/15/2014 offering it up!
--Jason
On 10/25/2017 06:24 PM, Dave McGuire via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
Well I'd certainly never heard of it.
-Dave
On 10/25/2017 04:22 PM, Jason Howe via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
And to think I have a 6300 sitting in it's original box in the garage that I can't generate any interest for locally.
--Jason
On 10/25/2017 10:24 AM, Dean Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
The AT&T 6300 was an example of a system that was 99.9% compatible with the IBM standard and actually made inroads to the market because of it. Working at Simon & Schuster in the 80's, we had many of these machines because Microsoft Word for DOS had a driver for the 640 x 400 graphics mode that allowed for WYSIWYG editing, and as well it cost a bit less. Faster than the XT, the software and 8-bit ISA slot compatibility were very high, but it had proprietary 16-bit slots which limited it's usefulness in the long term. Very sturdy machines, however. Hoping to add one to my collection someday.
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 12:55 PM, Drew Notarnicola via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
On Wed, Oct 25, 2017 at 12:26 PM, Earl Baugh via vcf-midatlantic < vcf-midatlantic@lists.vintagecomputerfederation.org> wrote:
> And in theme with Herb's kerosene powered fan, I actually own a > gasoline > powered clothes iron. > Looks like a regular small iron but is gasoline powered. Seriously. > > > Earl > I've got to see this. Do you have a photo you could upload somewhere? I love really old, weird devices like that. I have a calculator that had a few metal sliders marked with numbers that you'd slide up and down with a stylus to do calculations with, and it was color coded to tell you when to do a carry.