[VoIP] OT - A good clicky springy PC keyboard

[Alex Clark]

I know it's off topic, but I love these old things!

I've got an old Apple II+ that I just can't throw away (with dual 5.25"
floppy drive), as well as the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum!  You wouldn't like the
keyboards on these two!

What I have that is quite rare is a BBC Domesday laser disk with the
appropriate hardware - see http://fon.gs/bbc

I'm sure the disk reader is fine, but it links to an RM Nimbus computer,
with a faulty graphics card!  I suppose I had better keep an eye out for a
replacement if it's ever going to be used again.

The BBC Domesday project was really exciting at the time, and some of the
example pictures are interesting! See:

http://www.si.umich.edu/CAMILEON/domesday/domesday.html

Alex.

-----Original Message-----
From: windmill [mailto:windmill at topletter.com] 
Sent: 24 January 2008 09:08
To: Voice Over IP Tandem for Analog Switches
Subject: Re: [VoIP] OT - A good clicky springy PC keyboard

You haven't lived !

 From the 1970s I still have my two TRS-80 model 1's with solidly built ALPS
keyboards and their 100Kb single sided single density floppy disk drives.
One of these I rebuilt into a metal case with two floppies and the butchered
gubbins of a Tandy thermal printer, all extant but not powered up in more
than 25 years and yes I still have rolls of 2.5" wide silver thermal paper
for it! I really must clear out my garage, I've been hanging onto some of
this stuff for far too long now.

I also still have from the early 1980s my Act Apricot PC, which has a
keyboard with a nice feel to it, and its twin 720Kb double density floppy
drives which cost me £1800 when I bought it new. I also have three Act
Apricot XI PCs which were aimed further at the business market with a single
720Kb floppy drive and an almighty 10 Mb (yes ten!) hard disk drive which I
picked up basically as spares for £100 each in the early 1990s.

Of course all the above have green or black&white monitor screens and none
have modems or network cards. The way things are going 1Tb drives will be
miniscule and hi-res screens will be old hat in no time!

My first 'computer' was a single board kit with an SC/MP processor and 1Kb
RAM, no keyboard and no monitor, not even a modulator! Programming was done
on 19 switches and results were output on 32 red LEDs.

Ah the days indeed..................

Brian

Richard Lane wrote:
> Yeah I remember those...
>
> My first computer was a XT clone made by a company called Amstrad. It 
> had a 13.something EGA monitor with a 5.25 inch single double sided 
> double density drive with a whopping capacity of 360KB. It also had a 
> MFM hard drive made by Seagate which had a capacity of 30 megabytes.
> When we bought this machine our family were like the people down the 
> road with the huge hard drive.
>
> The sounds were great from the old hard drives and I still have an IDE 
> 40MB western digital drive in my possession. I also have kept all my 
> original disks and games including California games, world games, the 
> sierra games (kings quest, police quest, space quest, leisure suit 
> larry etc.
>
> I only just chucked out my original Epson FX80 8 pin dot matrix 
> printer last week after a clean up.
>
> Ah the days
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