few days before Paul Attivissimo published his post 25 years on from nostalgic tones of the film "Wargames" I had been hit by first signs of an unequivocal saudade software for some of my past. Maybe it's also the fault of Ebay, for browsing among the thousands of ads having as its main theme the only memory for familiar objects, one inevitably recall the good times and less beautiful in the past. And, at least me, I end up doing for a sort of inventory of my life as I try to put in place all the fragments of memories that come to mind.
This long preamble to try to justify a request that I do to all readers of this blog (which is actually more than a blog is a writing pad and has no readers), in an attempt to get help to trace an object that was very important in my life.
Work in IT since 1990 and the first "computer" I put my hands on was a VIC20 second hand in 1985 or so. I've never been content to use the programs made by others, and the thing that fascinated me most was just the possibility of "programs" created by my imagination. All the other owners of my friends at the time of a much more talented Commodore 64, which was limited to remain dazed in front of programs (games almost exclusively) that exist for their computers.
I have had many other pc, after that first VIC20. The second was an IBM PC XT compatible (then known as clones, and were nearly all in Asia), a dresser with a 8086 processor (16 bit) to 4.7 Mhz, 256KB RAM, two readers floppy 5 '1 / 4 360KB, a green phosphor monitor 14 "... the last is what I've assembled a few weeks ago, Intel Core 2 Quad (64 bit), 2.5 Ghz, 4 GB ram, hard drives, to no end, wide screen 22 "writers and graphics card alone has more power than a department a few years ago ...
But I never forgot the very first PC I've had. I call it "true" because until then seemed PCs (also good) articles intended to particular environments, separated from the offices and in any case difficult to coexist in an apartment. My first serious camera was an IBM PS / 2 model 55 SX (8555-31), with a processor 80386sx to 16 Mhz and 80387sx math coprocessor (optional component ...), 2 Mb RAM, 30 MB hard drive, monitor 14 "color high resolution, floppy by 3'1 / 2 1.44 Mb. .. is one of the photo that I enclose, in all its glory.
So, after spending several days searching in a working network (and especially in sales), I realized that it is not so easy to find one. There is an American company that has 43 for sale, but the cost of shipping exceeds that of the PC and it seems to me absurd ... but all in all I sent the request for an offer to the seller for complete pc , CPU, keyboard and monitor. I am waiting for answers (Update: I asked about, now the shipping cost exactly what the hardware). I have discovered more than one on a site that was selling a lot of obsolete computer equipment, but the operator of the site I wrote to them saying, "recently completed" ... I missed a few days to a couple of auctions on Ebay, one of which ended without any offer to the seller ... I contacted a couple of sites dedicated to retrocomputing but for now I have not found anything. One I found listed in a pdf document relating to a judicial auction, I wrote asking for information. No response. The next attempt to cover the flea markets and shops of computer equipment that may have something in stock ...
why I ask you to help me out, maybe someone of you has a friend of a friend who wants to get rid of an old PC, and coincidentally, that's what I try ... or any of you can tell a place, a shop, a website, where he saw for sale computers in the early 90's ... In short, any information is welcome ... hoping it can also prove useful!
Thanks in advance ...
This is a partial and inaccurate list of all hardware "vintage" I still have it:
- VIC20 a complete power supply, RF modulator, "cassette unit" original Commodore, memory expansion to 16 kb, other games cartridges and tape;
- 500Mb SCSI disk, with on-board controller ISA;
- Other hdd (smaller than the Gb)
- an FDD with 720 KB;
- a 1.44-Kb fdd;
- a local bus graphics card;
- S3 Trio graphics card;
- different from internal and external modem 14.4bps to rise (up to 33.6bps)
- a motherboard for 486 processors, two processors for PII and P3 on one slot ;
- many sticks of ram of different types (from 2 MB to stand up);
- a Creative 2x CD ROM (and several others of various brands);
- a LiteOn cd burner;
- a 80486DX processor;
- a PII processor with heatsink;
- a P3 processor with heatsink;
- Mustek flatbed scanner;
- an ink jet Epson Stylus Photo 400 (I think);
- a processor NEC V20 (8086 compatible);
- two eprom bios Olivetti M200;
- a mouse original IBM PS / 2 two buttons;
- different two-button mouse of various brands;
- a Sound Blaster Live! value;
- GeForce II video card with 256MB of RAM;
- a CRT 17 "unknown brand;
- a NEC MultiSync 17";
- a full PC (PIII 800 Mhz, three banks of 128 MB RAM, HD not remember how
...); - a full PC (PIV of 2.66 Mhz, 1 GB RAM, ATI Sapphire X1600 PRO, the rest do not remember). But
more impressive is the list of things that I've owned and I have not:
- an IBM PC compatible (clone) with Intel 8086, 256KB RAM, two floppy drives 5'1 / 4 360KB, CGA video card, monitor 14 "green phosphor;
- an IBM PS / 2 model 55 SX Intel 80386sx, 2 MB of RAM, a floppy drive by 3'1 / 2 1.44 Mb, VGA video card, monitor 14" colors and high resolution;
- a PC with a processor-6x86L Cyrix PR200 + GP (clone of Intel);
- a dot matrix printer Citizen 120D;
- an ink-jet ink Seikosha;
- many printed manuals IBM (S/36, AS/400, PS / 2, etc.).
- hard disks to install Windows I, Windows II and Windows 3.11;
- hard to install PC-DOS (from version 1.10 to 3.30), MS-DOS (from version 2.11 to 6.22);
- the installation disks GEM / 3.
Perhaps in the coming days will update the list with the missing information.
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