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Last year I started doing some part-time work, and I had this money coming
in! So I started my collection, trying to get one of lots of different types
of old computers. I got an Apple IIe, Commodore Vic-20, 64 and 128 and Tandy
Colour Computer 2 and 3. I then got a two more Apple IIes just to take the
mouse card and memory card respectively. An Apple IIgs was next, and I
bought an Apple IIe LC Card off a guy in the US through eBay. Then I needed
a computer to put it in, which came off eBay Australia -- the Mac LC 475.
Recently a Mac IIsi with network card came in, and I just had to put it up
on my network!

My current computer collection:
1.  IBM PS/2 Model 30 286
2.  IBM PS/2 Model 55 SX
3.  IBM PS/2 Model 30 286
4.  IBM PS/2 Model 70 386
5.  Apple IIe Enh (65C02, 128 KiB RAM)
6.  Apple IIe Plat  (65C02, 128 KiB RAM)
7.  Apple IIe Plat (65C02, 128 KiB RAM)
8.  Apple IIc (65C02, 128 KiB RAM)
9.  Apple IIgs (65816, 2 MiB RAM)
10. Mac LC 475 (68LC040, 8 MiB RAM)
11. Mac Plus (68000, 4 MiB RAM)
12. Mac IIsi (68030, 5 MiB RAM)
13. Commodore 128 (8502 and Z80, 128 KiB RAM)
14. Commodore 64 (6510, 64 KiB RAM)
15. Commodore Vic20 (6502, 4 KiB RAM)
16. Tandy Coco 3 (6809, 128 KiB RAM)
17. Tandy Coco 2 (6809, 64 KiB RAM)
18. Sharp MZ-700 (Z80, 64 KiB RAM)
19. Linux PC (Cyrix 6x86 PR-200, 40 MiB RAM)
20. Win2k PC (AMD Duron 800, 128 MiB RAM)

> I would hate to see how many you collect if you had your own place, maybe
a
> garage or a hanger would be more suiltable. :)

If I had the space and the time...

> I'm starting to feel cluttered with about 10 machines set up and 3-4
bitsa's
> spread over 3 rooms .
> A network back then was just a group of friends you had. My monitor was a
> crappy B/W Princess TV, which quickly got replaced by a home assembled
green
> screen monitor, with fully exposed wiring (yeech, if I only knew how
> dangerous that was then)

Cool.

> As far as networking Apple goes now, I've just started using AppleTalk,
and
> found it to be great. Easy to install cabling, and very cheap. You only
need
> basic telephone wire and some RJ12's for longer runs. AppleTalk adaptors
are
> only $15AUD new and probably $5AUD or less second hand, so they are not
much
> of a cash outlay. I am getting about 100Kb/s (that's bits) throughput
which
> is pretty good, and certainly faster than using "swappys".

I'd like to get an Appletalk card into my IIe, and enough adaptors to
connect my IIsi, LC 475, IIgs, IIe and Mac Plus together.

> As far as HDD's go for a IIe, the cheapest option would be one of the
Focus
> 60Mb or larger cards. They are easy to shuffle around between machines,
work
> on a IIe or IIGS. I like the idea of SCSI on the GS, so you can connect a
> CD-ROM as well, but since I now have AppleTalk, I can use the CD-ROM on
the
> Mac through the network, so now I am thinking of skipping the CD for the
GS.

I don't think my IIe really _needs_ a hard disk. The IIgs on the other hand;
it's virtually a necessity if I want to run System 6.0.1.

Simon.