ScuzzBlog: Diaries September 2017 Entry 9th September 2017: Post: 1 New Arrivals New for 2017 Those that visit the site regularly and have followed my exploits collecting computers over the years realise that I kinda stopped formal collecting in April 2008 with a more determined closure of acquisitions in 2010. Whilst I made a conscious effort to avoid bringing further kit to the house I was gifted a couple of large collections leading up to the 2010 moratorium. Following that I have been good to my word and kinda stopped... [ so funny ] Anyway, following events of December 2016 I was able to gain full access to the collection and particularly rooms where computers and kit had been stored under dust covers. My intention this year was to test as much of the kit as possible and where necessary replace and repair where I could. And so in doing this I have needed to acquire the odd thing. This meant venturing into the dangerous world of Ebay. I did give in a couple of times with the odd purchase but I am pleased that I avoided further purchases. As hard as it was. Below are the odd items that found there way here during the last 9 months with the major addition being the Win10 computer which set me back close on £850. Waste of time in the end as I repaired the Win7 machine by fitting a new graphics card. PowerPack No 4 for the C64 PowerPack No 40 for the C64 PowerPack No 6 for the C64 PowerPack No 23 for the C64 PowerPack No 8 for the C64 Alice in Videoland for the C64 MS-DOS for the 1060 with A2088/A1060 Utilities A600 4GB 2.1 WHLOAD CF Harddrive CP/M Plus Version 3.0 for the C128 Parrot 5.25" case with MS-DOS Avalon disks for the C64 1764 RAM Expansion Utility GW BASIC Interpreter 3.2 EYE for the Amiga Einstein User Volume 1 Number 1 Popular Computing Nov 84 Popular Computing Dec 83 Cool World Amiga Software for the C64 Two gender changers for the Acorn 3000 PCW9512 Locoscript and CP/M system disks Quite a number of replacement disk belts all now installed. Plus scart connectors for the C64 and BBC computers. Drive belts when replaced Battery replacement for the BBc Master Elvira video PCW9512 computer system DELL Inspiron 3668 Windows 10 machine Purchased new from DELL. Subsequently I repaired the HP Win7 machine and so the DELL machine was mothballed. DELL Inspiron 3668 Windows 10 machine Inspiron Desktop 3668 7th Generation Intel(R) Core i7-7700 (8MB Cache up to 3.60GHz 16GB DDR4 at 2400MHz 128GB SSD+1TB GB 7.2k HDD NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750Ti with 2GB DDR5 Windows 10 Home ( 64Bit) McAfee LiveSafe DELL Inspiron 3668 Windows 10 machine Had the machine been running Windows 7 it would have been OK. Sadly it runs Windows 10 which is a glorified mobile phone application and consequently a large load of doo doo !! Just can't use the thing. Serious nonsense NVIDIA GTX 460 replacement for the HP Thank goodness I was able to mend the Win7 machine or I don't know what I would have done. In truth Macs are not my thing and I just can't be doing Linux. I would have had to acquire another Win7 machine somehow. All is fine and the Win7 runs without fault This will be my last real computer I guess They just don't make computers any more.... I don't have or want a mobile phone. Let alone a computer that behaves like one. Junk !!!!

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