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[Chukkzy]

As you might notice with my signature I am an Amiga fan, the Commodore Amiga 500 was my first real computer (not counting a crappy plastic Atari VCS 2600) and I loved that thing to bits, literally... I went through three of these in a timespan of ten years (the first ones diskdrive was broken and I was too much of a kid to be able to repair it, the other one made room for an upgraded Amiga with 2 megs ram, TWO MEGABYTES!!! JESUS! ).

While modern PCs are really cool things and I would not swap my PC for anything at this point, my heart still belongs a bit to these old machines with their mechanical goodness, i literally could recognize games from the noise the floppy made when loading.

So any thoughts on these old machines?

[SpleenBeGone]

I currently have a Commodore PET sitting in my shop. I have no tapes for it, and I'm not sure if the tape drive even works, but it's pretty epic to have.

[Chukkzy]

I saw a PET demo a few days ago on Youtube, pretty interesting:

[SpleenBeGone]

Trippy.

I've never been able to make mine do anything remotely interesting, it's mostly there for bragging rights. If it wasn't so old, I might gut it and try and fit new parts in the old case.

[Chukkzy]

I don't have a real relation to these machines, for me the interesting homecomputer period started with the C64 and was passed on to the Amiga lol.

[SpleenBeGone]

I'd just feel bad about destroying something like that.

Now if it was an old Dell or HP, it'd be in little pieces. >.>