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Fun and Profit With Obsolete Computers
An anonymous reader writes "C|Net has a story about the value of aging computer hardware, and the subculture of people who collect them. The story details some of the more enthusiastic collectors currently participating in the hobby, as well as their old-school beautiful hardware. '[Sellam Ismail] recently brought a quarter century-old Xerox Star computer back to life to be used as evidence in a patent lawsuit. The pride of his collection is an Apple Lisa, one of the first computers (introduced in 1983) with a now standard graphical interface. Such items sell for more than $10,000. In an old barn in Northern California that also houses pigs, Bruce Damer, 45, keeps a collection that includes a Cray-1 supercomputer, a Xerox Alto (an early microcomputer introduced in 1973) and early Apple prototypes. '
I still have a Commodore Plus 4. And before I got the disk drive, I had to retype all my programs in. That's how I learned to type faster. But anyway, think about how many XP users will hang on with a death grip! I'm a news director at a radio station and I love to talk about how Microsoft is screwing the consumer! It's so easy to do when Microsoft keeps providing such excellent examples such as Vista! After all, aren't they a part of the dumbing down of America. I then talk about Linux, which keeps getting better all the time.