I bet that the old XT would have powered up -- built like a tank... But I just don't have room for that old junk any more. I still have some old machine in the 7-900 MHz range, but have purged all the pre-PII stuff (or still working on it, as the case may be)...mikeb wrote:I think you sum up my feelings about here quite nicelyother than as a hobby, I don't know why anyone would bother...
I am a generic stick in the mud and hate throwing away anything that works but stuff here I would have junked years ago except it died already like the cheap commercial stuff often does.
Thing is no one is using steam powered automobiles / cars that I know of
mike
I have hung onto the old Amiga 500 laying around...