Reply 20 of 34, by renejr902
dionb wrote on 2025-09-23, 20:56:renejr902 wrote on 2025-09-23, 16:27:its a community to get help here, vogons dont have a maximum of questions by person. If i ask question, its because i need these […]
dionb wrote on 2025-09-23, 06:36:Quite a lot of this stuff goes back to XT era. There's a (not hugely interesting) Tatung CGA monitor and a (rather more interesting) NEC Multisync EGA+VGA monitor in the pile, an XT keyboard and some of the cases are XT clones.
I love 'lootbox' lots, but wouldn't personally spend this sort of money on them, particularly not as there are no pics of the business end (rear) of the systems. You could hit gold with working systems full of interesting stuff - or you could have a big pile of non-functioning hardware with no standout bits&pieces on your hands. If that XT clone just has a CGA (clone) adapter inside, a small (broken) MFM HDD and not much else, and those later systems are also just basic office systems with minimal graphics and no sound, this could be a bit disappointing. Of course, they could also contain all kinds of rare and exotic hardware, but that's a long shot.
It's great that you have a father who might be able to help fix stuff, but - as such a father myself - if you want some good quality father-child time fixing up old crap, I'd suggest being a bit more focused: get a single system with contents that have particular meaning to at least one of you and go deep there. You've been posting a lot of topics recently with fairly basic questions about a whole lot of different things. That suggests a huge amount of enthousiasm, but also a bit of a lack of focus. You'd learn more by slowing down and instead of blurting out the first questions that come to mind, first think how you might go about answering them yourself - and if you can't to ask about the process rather than the specific answers you're looking for (i.e. asking for help and tips on how to fish, not just asking for some fish - and some more fish - and hey, is that another fish too? 😉 )
its a community to get help here, vogons dont have a maximum of questions by person. If i ask question, its because i need these answers and i dont find it elsewhere. Nobody know everything dont forget that. My father an me have a lot of focus, i have 45 and my father 70 and he repairs pc and vintage pc and videogames consoles since 1983 for different big company, he still passionated, we dont lose any focus, we buy everything we can, we keep what we want in our collection and sell the others computers or parts we dont need. My fathers and me together have more than 30 pc vintage working build, that are perfectly repaired and working like new. We dont need to be judged by anyone about our purchasing habits or judgment, its insulting coming from you, I am very disappointed by your comments. dont ask me or answer me anymore if you are not interested, that's all. maybe youre just jealous, i dont know, maybe you just cant believe my father and me will create a pcmcia gameport card, i'm sorry you didnt have answer to my questions, my father kniw the answers anyway.
I'm not going to deprive myself of asking questions to please you.
About that lot i'm not so sure, he accepted, but i hesitated, its not just for collecting, i make money too selling that in my city, it works nice, a lot of vintage fanatics.
WTF?
I was just giving some advice on what I would recommend and most definitely not judging. As you've hopefully noticed I've taken the effort to post in your topics where I thought I could help and was intending to continue do so. I most definitely don't know it all though, and don't pretend otherwise. I do admit to misjudging your age as based on your posts I got the impression you were a young teenager like my own son. Regardless of age I'm happy that you have a father who is still capable and willing to do this sort of stuff with you. I'm not jealous, but I'm only a few years older and lost my father quite some time ago. I'd like to think he would have enjoyed similar things if he'd still been around and in good enough mental and physical health.
ok. my english is not great, i need a lot of effort to communicate in english, that's the reason it looks more teenager than adult by moment. My first language is french. I try to be very friendly when i talked here, so it could give impression that i'm younger than i'm am. In 1985 i was already trying card in different xt and at computer, because my father has box of isa cards. But i took a break of that stuff in my life between 2005 to 2019, and we had mostly sold everything we had duting these years, so we have to buy stuff to do vintage pc, so we went in warehouse to buy stuff. my father vintage pc like me, we have fun with it. But in 2020 we were very rusty about all that old tech. But now we are back understand like in these years, at least mostly.
It's ok i'm not angry with you anymore, forget about all of this. That's really fine.
