Obsolete Tech Finds In The Garage

[jyl]

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.

[red-beard]

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.

[Schumi]

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

Always wanted one since the first time I saw one.

[pwd72s]

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

[Scuba Steve]

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.

[fingpilot]

recent tornado damage got me going thru boxes...

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

[oldE]

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

[Shaun @ Tru6]

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

[id10t]

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.

[beepbeep]

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

[herr_oberst]

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

[Rednine11]

I am guilty of hoarding old Atari and Apple stuff.

[stomachmonkey]

Originally Posted by jyl

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

There is a thriving Newton/NOS community.

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

[sc_rufctr]

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

Commodore USA

[wdfifteen]

I still have a Mac Quadra in my garage.

[red-beard]

Originally Posted by sc_rufctr

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

Commodore USA

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.

[Rednine11]

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..............

[krystar]

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

[jyl]

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.

[motion]

Originally Posted by wdfifteen

I still have a Mac Quadra in my garage.

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.