You know what Kamui. Some people just don't understand things like this. Unless you bring it to their attention at times. I usually try to relate to some things with other people in the same way. I knew a guy one time who had said th similar thing to me with the two next stations that I have. ANd here is how ai will make it som what easy to relate in general. The guy that I was speaking to had a goo knowledge of cars. ANd loved his classical cars too. So I asked him simply. What makes a classical car so different than what I have as a classical computer. Beside classical cars having 4 wheels and you can go anywhere you want to with it. Its jut a pile of metal, rubber, and plastic put together.

The way I see it its just the same as what I have as a classical computer. And rattled of some thing that it can do as a comparison for him so that it wouldn't sound so bad. So it looked the same in equal value. Then he kind of saw the connection that I was making with him that you know what one see of value whether its a classical computer like what you had gotten or somthing that they may have gotten for themselves. But its a good thing that you showedethem you knew what you were talking about. It gave them a better respect that you knew something about it than they did.

ANd yes you are right on the button on that one. You did sav a piec of history there. Congradulations there.

Kamui Wrote: Compucore Wrote:Thats one place that I thought of automatically to check up on it Kia. Tried searching under just the name of it. No luck. Unless we went by the manudfacturer. But we don't have that available there. . Kamui is there a actual manufacturer name on it somewhere that we could use to check out. It should be located by the serial number at the bottome on the base of the machine there somewhere. KiaPurity Wrote:www.old-computers.com is the best site for old computer info as well as pictures. :P It's already at the museum! ^^;; Maybe I'll have my sis check in to that the next time I see her. But I do know a few things. Firstly, I learned from the curator that the computer I was looking at was a kit computer.... which explains the wood case. Secondly, the names I picked up off of it were "Electrohome" and "VDS/Video Data Systems" Anyways, Compucore, keep posting those stats! You really have my curiosity over here! And as far as that sketch goes, I'll be heading up to the scanning room later today to give it a scan. It's not the most awesome sketch I've ever came up with but I think it pretty much gets the point accross. Anyways, those guys at Surplus were pretty much laughing at me when they saw me later that day. They were pretty much saying 'Why would you want such a useless old thing? You'd have to be pretty stupid for buying it!" Then I told them all that I've learned about it and about classic computing and everything and that what they had there did indeed have some value. There were indeed some supprised gasps after that. in the end, they were the stupid ones for not knowing what it was and even stupider for thinking that I was stupid/naive enough to buy it! Of course I knew what I was getting in to unbeknowist to them! Hey! They were laughing at me! They deserved to hear that stuff! Of course, they're not laughing anymore! My dad keeps on saying through out the rest of the day that I rescued a piece of history. I guess you could say that he was right..... ~Kamui.EXE

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Compucore Wrote:You know what Kamui. Some people just don't understand things like this. Unless you bring it to their attention at times. I usually try to relate to some things with other people in the same way. I knew a guy one time who had said th similar thing to me with the two next stations that I have. ANd here is how ai will make it som what easy to relate in general. The guy that I was speaking to had a goo knowledge of cars. ANd loved his classical cars too. So I asked him simply. What makes a classical car so different than what I have as a classical computer. Beside classical cars having 4 wheels and you can go anywhere you want to with it. Its jut a pile of metal, rubber, and plastic put together. The way I see it its just the same as what I have as a classical computer. And rattled of some thing that it can do as a comparison for him so that it wouldn't sound so bad. So it looked the same in equal value. Then he kind of saw the connection that I was making with him that you know what one see of value whether its a classical computer like what you had gotten or somthing that they may have gotten for themselves. But its a good thing that you showed them you knew what you were talking about. It gave them a better respect that you knew something about it than they did. ANd yes you are right on the button on that one. You did sav a piec of history there. Congradulations there. Kamui Wrote: Compucore Wrote:Thats one place that I thought of automatically to check up on it Kia. Tried searching under just the name of it. No luck. Unless we went by the manudfacturer. But we don't have that available there. . Kamui is there a actual manufacturer name on it somewhere that we could use to check out. It should be located by the serial number at the bottome on the base of the machine there somewhere. KiaPurity Wrote:www.old-computers.com is the best site for old computer info as well as pictures. :P Anyways, those guys at Surplus were pretty much laughing at me when they saw me later that day. They were pretty much saying 'Why would you want such a useless old thing? You'd have to be pretty stupid for buying it!" Then I told them all that I've learned about it and about classic computing and everything and that what they had there did indeed have some value. There were indeed some supprised gasps after that. in the end, they were the stupid ones for not knowing what it was and even stupider for thinking that I was stupid/naive enough to buy it! Of course I knew what I was getting in to unbeknowist to them! Hey! They were laughing at me! They deserved to hear that stuff! Of course, they're not laughing anymore! My dad keeps on saying through out the rest of the day that I rescued a piece of history. I guess you could say that he was right..... ~Kamui.EXE

I actually made the classic car comparison like you did. What was even more supprising to everyone else was that I was able to pick that one off. I mean I'm only 19.5yrs old and because of my age, people thought that I would be a little naive because that computer completely missed me! Sure I knew the Commondors because I had one at school a long time ago. So it was their assumption. If I weren't so in to computers (And Tron!), I probably wouldn't have picked it out either! It's times like these that make me very glad that I'm a computer geek! ^^ But yeah, I just had to show up Surplus later. It was the only classic computer they kept too! the rest were thrown out a long time ago. So I was very lucky to even found it when I did! Otherwise, it would have been scrapped.

It was really kinda cool to actually get to see this machine up close and to actually touch it and to have some fond memories of my Commondor 64. *Sniff* Anyways, I knew about the wood cases because I saw a movie

Compucore Wrote: Donèt you love when you find a gem of a computer like those.

*Nods excitedly* And let's consider that they were originally asking 1$ Can with tax when I started and then knocked off the tax because they thought it wasn't worth much!

Anyways, I do have those sketches with me, and here they are:

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/Kamui.EXE/compy001.jpgI tried to fit everything I saw on this page. It describes the keyboard, the case and some strange-wonkey switch that came with.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v256/Kamui.EXE/compy002.jpgThis is a rough sketch of the monitor. The googled one was way better.

Hopefully, you guys can read my handwritting! ^^;;

~Kamui.EXE