Personal Computer Museum Meet

[Centallica]

Thought I'd give a plug for the museum as they're hosting a retro computer event and was wondering if any of the Ontario boys might be going?



Brian

[carlsson]

Will the barbeque be "powered" from overheated computers without fans?

[6502dude]

Thought I'd give a plug for the museum as they're hosting a retro computer event and was wondering if any of the Ontario boys might be going?

Maybe, Are you attending?

Ad doesn't mention anything about strippers

So I guess it will be a pretty tame retro event

[Centallica]

Ad doesn't mention anything about strippers

So I guess it will be a pretty tame retro event

Ya, maybe the next retro event I hold in the fall will have them for us instead

I might be going with a friend that collects antique radios (they'll be 100 there as well) and the more from the board that goes, the more I'll ensure I'll be there

Brian

[Centallica]

Will the barbeque be "powered" from overheated computers without fans?

I know when you have 25 pinball machines in someones basement during the summer with the air conditioning cranked you'll still be sweating from the heat of the machines

Brian

[PaulQ]

What a great idea. I've always maintained that computers are rarely used for a fraction of their expected life, yet they never stop doing what people originally bought them to do. What's really crazy is that people have spent thousands on stuff that is thrown in the garbage!

It really cheesed me off when my Amiga 500 system was deemed "Obsolete" after what I thought were 5 very short years. People would crinkle their noses at the Near-Letter Quality output of my 9 pin dot matrix printer and chuckle at my hundreds of 3.5" diskettes in lieu of a hard drive in '93. The battery in my A501 memory expander still retained the current date and time! I still have that computer and printer, and they both work fine. I bought a new ribbon for it last year. I still think dot matrix printer output looks cool and futuristic.

I can agree with updating when something big comes along. Digital video was the only reason I updated my PC last time; but then I turned my old one into a Linux web server. I bought (built) that one because of digital photography.

The video game console market has always amused me; people ditch perfectly good systems that cost them hundreds of dollars for the latest and greatest to basically play the same games, but with more realistic graphics to "Ooh" and "Ahh" over. Fortunately for me, my oohing and ahhing started and ended with the Amiga. Going from a C64 to an Amiga was really quite stunningly dramatic for games; everything after that just didn't compare. After that, the only thing that mattered for me was gameplay. Especially when so many graphically enticing games had such crappy gameplay on the Amiga.

My only problem now is that I'm running out of space. I'd really like to go to an event like this. Too bad there wasn't one local to me. Then again, Brampton isn't that far, if gas wasn't consistently well over a buck a liter.

[Centallica]

Then again, Brampton isn't that far, if gas wasn't consistently well over a buck a liter

You gotta keep going further than Brampton as it's in BRANTFORD

Brian