I am chucking out one of these
http://cgi.ebay.it/COMPUTER-OLIVETTI...QQcmdZViewItem
it has all the original manuals, floppy disks, keyboard and monitor. Cost £1800 when new (with printer) iirc(italian ebay bloke is getting EU 5.50 for it lol)
Am I kidding myself that this will become a modern classic in 30 years time and turn up on Antiques Roadshow going for a $$$. Well yes most probably, but it brings a tear to my eye looking through the inch thick MS-DOS manual. All those memories of forgotten DOS commands and hundreds of floppy disks.![]()
The funny thing is that my dad was still using this for his business a couple of years ago running a DOS program on it. well actually the program is still DOS based he just has newer hardware now.


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david dickinson will be pricing it up some dodgy auction one day


I feel like that even with my current computers.. I don't want to get a new one unless the old one can go to a good home - it's not like they've any less good at doing the job, and all the R&D and materials than went into it..