gofar99 Messages: 1950 Registered: May 2010 Location: Southern Arizona
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I am sure glad to see others hang on to strange stuff. I have a Timex-Sinclar 1000 in my shed. I have the expanded 16K memory and some programs to boot. Actually functional. More than I could say for the crunchie. A few other things include an original CMI 10meg IBM hard drive (about the size of a large brick) it works as well, an original IBM color monitor (works) ...I think you understand why all my closets are full and I have two sheds, one a 12X10 with 2 lofts and one 8X10. Like I said though, I use computers in lots of the things I do and demand performance from them. Because of how my eyes misbehave I need a high refresh rate so currently it is 240 at 2K rez on an Alienware monitor. To get that requires some fairly serious hardware. Right now a HP OMEN i7 8 core (gamer machine) with 2 SSD, 32 gigs and a Nvivia RTX video card. I have found that gamer machines can be better long term value than standard ones as they start out at a higher level of performance. Then when the updates I so dislike come along the degradation is at a slower pace. For a long time I was using an i3 with much lower capability and it was taking the best part of a day to do the mandatory upgrades and even then it ran so slow. Turn it on, go for coffee, watch some of the weather channel and maybe by the time I got back it was ready to do something.
I love the Altair. I nearly got one until I discovered what it would cost at the time. I got a Commodore 64 instead.....that was a detour I should have avoided as while it was functional it didn't run any programs I needed.
Now I think I'll investigate steam powered automobiles that run on dung. There seems to be plenty of that flying around now.
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Turn it on, go for coffee, watch some of the weather channel and maybe by the time I got back it was ready to do something. 
