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geekhack Marketplace => Great Finds => Topic started by: trievalot on Wed, 21 April 2010, 06:28:31

Title: nice looking 8088
Post by: trievalot on Wed, 21 April 2010, 06:28:31

http://cgi.ebay.com.au/SIRIUS-1-Computer-Base-Monitor-Keyboard-1982_W0QQitemZ120559412498QQcmdZViewItemQQptZAU_Computers_Vintage?hash=item1c11e6a512

Title: nice looking 8088
Post by: kishy on Wed, 21 April 2010, 08:36:41

Now that's worth looking at.

Somewhat useless to post though, on account of being pick up only...

Title: nice looking 8088
Post by: Rajagra on Wed, 21 April 2010, 10:04:13

Standard features in 1982:

Quote from: Sirius 1 specs

Type ahead buffering to 32 levels and full n-key rollover

Sigh.

Title: nice looking 8088
Post by: EverythingIBM on Wed, 21 April 2010, 17:30:35

Quote from: kishy;174064

Now that's worth looking at.

Somewhat useless to post though, on account of being pick up only...

well if someone has an aussie friend, they can get them to ship it after picking it up.

Title: nice looking 8088
Post by: trievalot on Thu, 22 April 2010, 03:32:23

Quote from: EverythingIBM;174227

well if someone has an aussie friend, they can get them to ship it after picking it up.

Melbourne is only  800km from me, and about 6000 from HaaTA.....

Title: nice looking 8088
Post by: HaaTa on Thu, 22 April 2010, 05:24:55

Just make a shopping weekend trip out of it, 800 km isn't too far. And from the looks of it, it's a pretty flat route (i.e. no mountain passes).

Driving through the rockies so many times, that's not really all that far.
That's like Prince Rupert to Prince George (first city larger than 20 000 on the route to Edmonton) [~730 km through the Rockies].

My advice though, don't go to Prince George, it's the ass hole of BC. Prince Rupert is nice, but its always raining.

Title: nice looking 8088
Post by: ricercar on Thu, 22 April 2010, 12:50:04

Quote from: EverythingIBM;174227

well if someone has an aussie friend, they can get them to ship it after picking it up.

Isn't that one of them racist comments i was reading about in that other thread?

Title: nice looking 8088
Post by: ch_123 on Thu, 22 April 2010, 13:03:38

I'll just get on my Kangaroo and bounce overe there.

I'll be back in a few months...

Title: nice looking 8088
Post by: kishy on Thu, 22 April 2010, 15:41:01

Ah, so that's why it took so long for the Model M parts to reach trievalot. Kangaroo post is to blame.