whats a good vintage computer

jseber1982 · 07-28-2005, 03:55 PM

I havnt been around long enough really to be into the old stuff, like commodor 64s and beyond that. What are some really good old pieces to collect?gunna start a computer antique collection in my office here.

Just bought part of an old rack off of ebay.. The piece has a bunch of big resistors and like 6 vacuum tubes, from one of the original computers that took up a whole room and had like over 50,000 vacuum tubes. I also bought windows version 1,, comes on a few 5 1/2 disks

The51 · 07-28-2005, 03:58 PM

If you wanna spend some cash, try to find a Macintosh Lisa or just go for the old net servers. I just picked up a HP NetServer (dual 486).

macdude425 · 07-28-2005, 05:05 PM

Try and find a Lisa 1, complete with 5.25" Twiggy drives and floppies. These are collectors items. So are Apple I's.

DJ-CHRIS · 07-28-2005, 11:05 PM

Get a 4.77mhz IBM

jseber1982 · 07-29-2005, 09:08 AM

**** a lisa is sellin on ebay for 500 bucks

macdude425 · 07-29-2005, 04:32 PM

Is it a Lisa 1 (with 5.25" Twiggy drives) or a more common Lisa 2 (with a single 3.5" floppy drive)?

mak01 · 07-29-2005, 05:08 PM

I used to have a Macintosh Apple II I believe it was. Had a whole 40mb hard drive!

macdude425 · 07-29-2005, 05:45 PM

I think you're thinking of a Macintosh II. The Apple II couldn't handle drives without breaking them into pieces, and the IIgs could only handle up to 32MB.

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