Igor, crank up the lightning........
- Thread starter Rezillo
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I like Skol
A Minging Manc...
- Location
- Sunny Ashton-under-Lyne
88 miles per hour Marty!
I love it.It knows nothing about covid or Liverpool winning the Pram League or Leeds United and Bielsa,you have a lot to teach it.
First will be teaching it to sing "Daisy, Daisy", second will be a loyalty test to "Open the garage bay doors".
I'm amazed the floppies still work - I never took them out.
RoubaixCube
~Tribanese~
- Location
- London, UK
going to pop over to the bay of evil and see if there are any for sale just for interestWow! When I last looked, which I admit was probably 10 years ago, you could get one for less than £40. I once saw one at the Bletchley Park museum and offered them mine but they didn't want another one.Excellent find!
People are selling the desktop itself (without the monitor) on ebay for £165. while one being sold 'for parts' is selling for £200
your set up has to be worth a good amount to collectors out there since its in decent condition and working.
The monitor plastic is quite heavily discoloured.
AndyRM
XOXO
- Location
- North Shields
lazybloke
Priest of the cult of Chris Rea
- Location
- Leafy Surrey
PROMPT $P$G
RoubaixCube
~Tribanese~
- Location
- London, UK
That plastic can be cleaned up with hydrogen peroxide (or some sort of peroxide) or bicarbonate soda and fine grit sandpaper. Ive seen a lot of retro tech collectors do this after stripping all the important electrics out.
You basically strip everything out and dip the discoloured plastic parts into a vat or tub of hydrogen peroxide or bicarbonate soda and that stuff just eats away at all the dirt and grime that's been embedded into the plastic over the years.
If you dont want it - some retro collector will definitely take it off you.
gbb
Squire
- Location
- Peterborough
Apparently, lots more gold than in their modern equivelents.
slowmotion
Quite dreadful
- Location
- lost somewhere
The fingers on edge connectors used to be plated to a far greater thickness than they are now. There are commercial organisations that break up old boards purely to recover the plated gold.
Cycleops
Legendary Member
- Location
- Accra, Ghana
When I saw the title I thought it might be about 'Lurch' Lavrov.
You can almost see the bolts in his neck.
You can almost see the bolts in his neck.
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Thanks for the info. Despite the Ebay prices, this is something that has been stored under less than ideal conditions for a very long time and I'm not that comfortable with selling it if it packs up after five minutes use by the buyer. There's a computer museum in Cambridge but they already have one so I will have to find a suitable nerd somewhere.
