[ale] OT: Woah, retro!

[James P. Kinney III]

During a spouse unit mandated cleaning, I was required to get rid of my
TI 99-4A card programmable calculator with the add on memory module and
thermal printer unit and several plug-in program packs including
statistics, statics and fluid flow engineering. Her excuse to have me
get rid of the lot was that the battery pack was dead and the charger
wouldn't run it any more.

sigh


On Tue, 2003-02-18 at 13:43, Joe wrote:
> I got a package in the mail from my grandma today, containing assorted
> junk of mine that she found floating around the house. It contained
> the following items, among others, which I mention purely for the joy
> of having them back in my posession:
> 
> - My Dad's Texas Instruments SR-50 scientific calculator, c. 1975. No
> battery pack, no adapter, no manual. This machine was the central
> computing engine at Dad's land-surveying business for about five
> years in the 70's.
> 
> - My Timex/Sinclair 1000, c. 1982, Z80A, 1K RAM. With manual (!), but
> no power supply, alas. Anybody got a dead one with a working power
> supply they'd be willing to part with? I'd love to see if this thing
> still boots. Hmm, maybe I can pick up a workable P/S at Radio Snack...
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> -- Joe Knapka
> _______________________________________________
> Ale mailing list
> Ale at ale.org
> http://www.ale.org/mailman/listinfo/ale
-- 
James P. Kinney III          \Changing the mobile computing world/
CEO & Director of Engineering \          one Linux user         /
Local Net Solutions,LLC        \           at a time.          /
770-493-8244                    \.___________________________./
http://www.localnetsolutions.com

GPG ID: 829C6CA7 James P. Kinney III (M.S. Physics) <jkinney at localnetsolutions.com>
Fingerprint = 3C9E 6366 54FC A3FE BA4D 0659 6190 ADC3 829C 6CA7 

 This is a digitally signed message part