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Re:Ask HN: Which vintage computers do you find interesting? by albertkoz on Thursday July 22, 2021 @09:51PM (#27926405)
I used to live in the UK for couple of years and I never heard of BBC before I living there. Right now I am hunting for Acorn and BBC and I am planning on flying to the UK just to pick them up. It's funny how these systems were so big, however only on the domestic market.

I would love to get SGI but in the country I live in, it's almost imposible, same as SUN and NeXT.

Re:Ask HN: Which vintage computers do you find interesting? by TheMog on Friday July 23, 2021 @10:01AM (#27930733)
For my own amusement I just had a quick look at eBay and it looks like old SUN gear has got expensive since last looked.

NeXT gear has always been expensive, that doesn't seem to have changed.

Re:Ask HN: Which vintage computers do you find interesting? by nonamenoslogan on Friday July 23, 2021 @01:58PM (#27933715)
Sun gear has REALLY jumped in price, especially the early 32bit SPARC stuff. I had a BUNCH of them in the mid 2000's, an IPX, SS10, SS20, Ultra1, and a beautiful full stack LX with CD-ROM and two external hard drives. Sold them all on over the years--now ONE machine is worth more than all I sold combined. I recently had a hankering for another Sparc and settled on a SunFire V100 because it was reasonably priced and I wanted to avoid buying a 13w3 monitor and Sun-Keyboard at the upper price range they are going for. Still a very capable server and it scratched my big-endian itch for the time being.
Re:Ask HN: Which vintage computers do you find interesting? by chaoticmass on Friday July 23, 2021 @04:40PM (#27935374)
I first learned Linux (and C) on a SparcStation LX back around 2005 with Debian. I had it fully kitted out with 9.1GB SCSI Hard Drive, 128MB RAM. I sold it around 2011 for $300 and thought that was a lot. Now I see them going for 3x that amount and I wish I'd kept it.
Re:Ask HN: Which vintage computers do you find interesting? by quickthrower2 on Thursday July 22, 2021 @10:48PM (#27926641)
Acorn Electron is effectively a small BBC micro. Lots of fun!