Obsolete Tech Finds In The Garage
 

I was organizing the garage and found:
- one Newton MP2000
- one Toshiba Libretto L100
- one Sony SW / World Band radio

Talk about blasts from the past. I wonder if it is worth the effort to get these charged up and working.

The Libretto I remember putting away because, with max 64MB RAM, it wouldn't even run Win 95 acceptably - everything requiring paging to HDD. I think I could stick a 20GB SSD in it, set pagefile to max, and it would run, maybe, Win XP?

The Newton is (was) a cool device. I wonder if anyone still supports it?

The Sony is a radio, so has some functionality, if there is such a thing as shortwave radio broadcasting anymore.

I have a Toshiba 1200HD. I was teased at the time for springing the extra money for a 10MB harddisk instead of just using dual 720k 3.5in disks.

If the Libretto still turns on, I'll give you $25 for it...

Always wanted one since the first time I saw one.

Antique Radio Classifieds to find the radio value...lots of folks into collecting old radios. And yes, Short Wave is still very much around.

The laptop... if you can get anything at all you've done well. Most likely won't hold a charge as batteries have been discharged too long.

The Newton... very cool. They sell surprisingly well.

recent tornado damage got me going thru boxes...

-A Commodore 64.
-Several Palm Pilots.
-My first laptop, had a 64MB hard drive. Yes, MB.

Heck,

I thought this was going to be about oil can spouts.

A few years ago, I gave our second computer (2 51/4 floppy drives and a 10 Mb hard drive added after a few years) to a computer museum.

It still worked, as did the yellow monochrome monitor.

Les

I found this little guy hanging around the neighborhood last summer.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1305632936.jpg

When I cleaned my garage a few months ago I tossed maybe $200k worth (when it was new) of computer equipment. Dual PPro server boxes w/ 9gb of scsi disks in RAID, etc.

I found a Tefifon player and a collection of "tapes" with classical music on them:

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I didn't find it in the garage, but it was given to me by a guy I used to work with:

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I am guilty of hoarding old Atari and Apple stuff.

There is a thriving Newton/NOS community.

If it's complete still worth a nice chunk of change.

My son is pestering me to got him one of these. I had the original. :D

Commodore USA

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I still have a Mac Quadra in my garage.

If I dig around at my parents house, I will probably find a C-64. I wonder if one of my highschool buddies still has his PET.

I still have a WORKING Commodore SX 64 "portable"
I had a
C 16
C Vic 20
C 64
C SX64
TI 99 4A
Amiga
Apple 2E
Apple 2C
Atari 400 with keybopard
Atari 800XL with Keyboard
IBM 5150

wow I could take all day if I keep going..............

Libreeto 100? man that's was good. i went thru college with a Libretto 50CT then a 100.

Would like to hear what other interesting stuff you all are finding in your garages.

Rooted around some more last night. No more computer stuff, but did find a NAD turntable. The ashes of my dog. A 12-ga shotgun. A Marryat fly reel. This is interesting, but is making me feel a bit old too.

I had a Mac Quadra and a few old computers squirreled away. Jim Jannard spotted them and wanted them, so we loaded them in his SUV and off he went. I have a brand new 20th Anniversary Mac still boxed up.