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Stonethrower
I never saw such a paper. Paper, right?If it came with a certificate of authenticity
How I can be sure that certificate itself is not cloned?
StoneThrower
www.dgmicrosys.com
I never saw such a paper. Paper, right?If it came with a certificate of authenticity
Kids don't appreciate the value of collectables -- when my brother was
a teenager he once used part of my dad's coin collection to pay for a
pizza he ordered -- at face value of course.
terryc said:It was easy to hack.
digi_64-public said:I never saw such a paper. Paper, right?
How I can be sure that certificate itself is not cloned?
StoneThrower
www.dgmicrosys.com
The Intel 4004 is probably worth a bit as well.....being the first uP.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel_4004
You could have sold an original 8086 CPU to NASA a few years ago for
use in the space shuttle program! It seems they had to use old technology
CPUs because of the exhaustive quality control regime involved in putting
a shuttle together.
Amongst the 'old crap' that I have discarded and now regret is a
Texas Instruments SR-71 (I think) calculator (it did square roots!)
and a HP 41C which I didn't intend to dump, but went missing during
one of my relocations. I've still got the programming cards for
the magnetic card reader, useless as they are!
There is a MicroBee community out there as well, determined to keep
Australia's own PC alive.
http://www.microbee-mspp.org.au/forum/index.php
**Those words probably apply to 90% of the people who read these groups.
My collection of 1,200 baud modems, 386 laptops, 256k RAm chips, 28 year
old CD players, Sony Beta machines, 20MB hard drives and valves are
surely going to be worth something. Actually, some of my crap is
(finally) starting to become valuable (I have a nice assortment of quite
valuable vaccuum tubes). SWMBO calls it "junk". She knows nothing.
Rene said:I used to be one of these 90% until 2010, in that year I had a big clean
up in my house, threw virtually everything away apart from a very limited
number of items I *really* like, and this made me feel sooo good! Space
itself really feels better than heaps of old crap that take it up.
Rene
Geez! Shouldn't have thrown out all that old crap years ago!
I had an 8008 CPU, and probably some other vintage stuff. Hmmm,
wait, I think I still HAVE an 8008 and matching EPROMS, etc.
in an old prototype I made.
Jon