Stijn!!

[nynor]

i've been building PC's for about 17 years. there is no way i am going to buy a complete system when i have two very nice PCIE video cards, 4GB RAM, 1.5+TB worth of SATA HDD, a DVD/CD burner and two CPU's (both of which are probably fine). that would be like buying a new 944 (brand new, mind you) because my current 944 needs a door.

[GH85Carrera]

I started with my Commodore Vic 16 with a tape drive and then a Commodore 64.

I started with the DOS world with my Compaq portable running DOS 2.2

Here is a price list I found in my closet at home when I was cleaning up recently. I ended up buying this computer. Look at the prices!



$619 for a 80 MB hard drive. That ain't 80 gig that is 80 MB. It had a whopping 4MB of ram. The 2400 baud modem was the best part. It was WAY faster than the 300 baud I had been using. The 25 Mhz 386 was a screaming fast computer compared to the 4.77 machine it replaced.

If you notice there is no OS at all. I was going to use my DOS version that I already had.

[GH85Carrera]

The PC option board was so that I could read and write that funny format that Mac floppies used back then.

[Rick V]

Evening guys.

[GH85Carrera]

Evening Rick. Have any deer tried to attack Peggy in a while?

[Rick V]

Naw Peggy is safe since I changed jobs and drive on more main roads. Good thing it was getting about time for one of them to do some damage and not just a light or grill.

[Rick V]

Originally Posted by nynor

stijn, unless i am mistaken, that gal is talking marriage! LOL! where do these people come off.

Tell her you would never buy a car without driving it so you will never commit to a woman without driving it.

[Porsche-poor]

Hello Rick!

did ya spoil the grand kids rotten?

[Rick V]

They are already rotten. Blame GrandMaw

[Porsche-poor]

They are always the guilty ones.
Did you have a good holiday?

[Rick V]

We don't make too much of the holidays, the over comercilazion of the whole thing just drives us nuts, We prefer to just relax. But yeah it was good.

[vas930]

yowdy.

[Porsche-poor]

Relaxing is good. The wife and I don't do to much but with two kids its a must.

[Rick V]

Well fortunately our kids feel the same way we do, so we do for the grandkids and just a HUGE dinner thing.



Vas

[nynor]

hey vas.

[Outback Porsche]

G'day

From +40C to 20ish, brrrr, this is going to take a couple of days to get used to

[vas930]

Have you blokes ever seen this car?



This is a very significant & almost mythical car. It is the 1974 Paris Motor Show Porsche Turbo prototype. It was built on the shell of a 1973 911S coupe. The chassis number shown on the sales sheet should have a 6 between 3 and 0. It's the first 911 to wear the bigger bumpers, turbo flares and a whale tail. As shown in Paris the car's engine had a real bottom end but the upper "turbo" plumbing was in fact made of wood. The car is often referred to as having a wooden engine, but this is not correct. The car did the Motor Show circuit here in Australia and then returned to the factory, its life as a show car over. It soon returned to Australia to become a successful race car and had many victories. Once its race career finished, it was turned into a road car and passed through a number of hands over the years. I took these photos at a Sydney dealer in Jan 2007. The paintwork looks a bit flat because it was being polished at the time. I believe that the car was sold to a fortunate new owner in Chicago.

I saw this car race as a young chap many times in Australia.
Anyone know anything about it now?

[vas930]

Jeff
Rick
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[Porsche-poor]

Don't know a thing about the car other than the fact I want it.

[Rick V]

Originally Posted by porsche-poor

don't know a thing about the car other than the fact i want it.

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