Old computers are like old cars. They may not have the power and speed of modern computers, nor do they run the latest version of Linux/Mac OS/Windows/Solaris/VMS. They won’t even give a decent framerate in the latest games. (Well, not many contemporary computers do that either) They have charm. People spent time and money developing […]
Monthly Archives: March 2006
Retro computing II, Atari
Min andra dator var en Atari Mega 1 med tysk TOS, som jag köpte direkt frÃ¥n Tyskland 1989. Jag använde den för DTP, och drev en reklamtidning a’la Metro. Tyvärr rÃ¥kade den illa ut under flytten till ett AT tower 1991. För att kunna fortsätta med tidningen fick jag skaffa en ersättare som blev en […]
Retro computing
Jag har bestämt mig för att Ã¥teruppväcka nÃ¥gra av mina gamla datorer. Den första dator jag ägde var en VIC-20. Jag köpte den begagnad av kompis som hade bytt upp sig till C64, och senare till en C128. Den stackars maskinen rÃ¥kade ut för en hel del “fixande”; resetknapp och minnesexpansion var de mest minnesvärda. […]
Yearly book-sale
Had planned to check out the yearly book-sale, (in a physical shop) but never got around to it. Yesterday, I saw an ad in Svenska Dagbladet from bokus, where they announced that feb. 28 was last day with free shipping of sale-books. I surfed over to them and started browsing. A purchase later I realized […]
Throwing old magazines
Throwing away old CRT-monitors doesn’t help much if the space vacated is immediately filled with old magazines of various kinds. To make rooms for new ones, I started throwing out almost everything. I did save my Foto, Herman Hedning, Studio and about a year of MacWorld issues. I hesitated about 20 old Allt Om Elektronik, […]