""Are these things even worth anything to anyone?""
          It would be interesting to find out!
I was very involved with  TI 99/4a computers.  I have a
ton of these and many parts.  I can't give them away now.
Worst investment I've ever made.

B Monk wrote:

>I still have a commodore 64 and a 128  that works. Cant use it for internet and the games are slow
>  to load as the are on cassette tape. I did upgrade it to a floppy disk drive
>  after having only a tape drive for a few months. The games on disk don't work anymore.
>  As of now its packed into a box in the attic waiting for my kids to throw out once  I pass away in about 40-50 years from now! Are these things even worth anything to anyone?
>
>  Bill
>  Mystic,CT
>
>Mark Hersh <markhersh@MSN.COM> wrote:
>  On Fri, 1 Feb 2008 10:21:54 -0800, Paul Guzyk
>wrote:
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>>I've been using PC's since the TRS-80 days.
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>Wow, "TRS-80." Reminds me of the blurb on the box of my Atari
>800XL: "What are you going do to with all that memory?"
>
>It had 64K of memory.
>
>The Atari is long gone (gee, I miss "Eastern Front"). Now, I buy cheap PCs
>from the major manufacturers' (Compaq or Dell the last two) "factory
>outlet" stores.
>
>Yeh, Windows stinks, but my time is worth less than my money. Actually, I
>have not had that much trouble with XP. The latest Dell is not showing the
>3-years-then-it-turns-into-a-turd syndrome of past PCs.
>
>Of course, I use my work-supplied laptop (also a Dell with XP) for most
>everything so the SO uses the Dell desktop.
>
>Doing my part to get the post count up to 142 (what's the time cutoff?)
>
>Mark Hersh
>86 Westfalia Weekender "Monty"
>
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