Am I missing something or is this a joke......

[OneWorld]

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/224628613762 ... SwyFBhVIEF

And to think I just lobbed an old Win 7 quad core xeon on the tip the other day

[Drew Stephenson]

Yeah, but yours wasn't 'retro'...

[Luke W]

I've got a lovely CRT monitor that could be bundled with it. Matching vintage colour scheme, of course.

[MOF]

I’ve still got a lot of my early Mac computers, pizza box, G5 tower and a crt monitor etc.
Being an Apple fan I would say it’s a joke.

[Moroccomoose]

I have an old Sam Coupe computer....based on ZX Spectrum architecture. It even has a dedicated MIDI connection! I'm lead to believe they are fetching similar sums! I also have a working Acorn Electron.... I keep meaning to cash them in!

[FrankF]

I've kept my 2004 XP machine going all these years because I can't fit a SCSI card in my main PC (2011 vintage). I've changed the PSU, replaced the hard drive with an SSD, upped the RAM etc. etc.
I sometimes have to power it on with the tip of a screwdriver, but I'm still quite fond of it. Also, it was my introduction to films on DVD, before I got a domestic DVD player, so it provided me a lot of entertainment over t'years. Beautiful plumage, squire!

Can anyone beat 2004 for a working PC?

[ef37a]

I still have Win 95 and 98 Msoft install discs. I wonder what they might fetch?

Dave.

[FrankF]

I still have Win 95 and 98 Msoft install discs. I wonder what they might fetch?

Dave.

I'd get them double-jabbed if I were you.

[James Perrett]

I've still got my 1998 vintage Pentium 2 studio computer although I'm not sure if it still works. I still have all my old soundcards too including a Turtle Beach Multisound, TB Maui and a Zefiro ZA-2.

[FrankF]

Close, James, but no cigarillo.
I still use mine for scsi .wav transfers, and it also runs Reaper, believe it or nay!

[OneWorld]

I still have Win 95 and 98 Msoft install discs. I wonder what they might fetch?

Dave.

They're fetching between £40-£80

Some time ago I sold a Win98 CD. I was about to bin it, but thought, out of curiosity, "I wonder if this is worth anything" I looked on eBay and wow they were selling for prices way about what I expected. I listed the disk at £30 buy it now and it was sold within the day.

But this computer I refer to in my original post - £700+ surely that is way beyond all expectations, would someone really pay that?

[Murray B]

I would want a Zip drive too for that kind of money

[MOF]

I would want a Zip drive too for that kind of money

I've still got one and all the disks with samples on, not sure if it works though.
I went to Akai HQ years ago with tons of floppies to transfer their library of S1000 samples (a free service for owners of their samplers, I just had to book a time slot), later they were put onto Zip drives and then imported into Logic's sampler.

[OneWorld]

I would want a Zip drive too for that kind of money

Hmmm, come to think of it, I have a few of those collecting dust under the bench, and I’m sure I have a Jaz drive too. If all these retro things have value I got myself a little Sotheby’s

[N i g e l]

I was going to quip that to replicate your 90's MIDI sequences to your synths authentically, you needed a 90's MIDI sequencer on a 90's PC.

but then I thought -

[TH1] 90's CAKEWALK MIDI sequencer had drivers for every MIDI interface and wrote directly to the hardware.

[TH2] 2020's CAKEWALK DAW writes MIDI data to a generic Windows interface which eventually works down through the windows layers to an interface manufacturers driver.

which one provides the most authentic timing ?

does it matter ?

[Rich Hanson]

You have to bear in mind that older gear is much warmer

[Mike Stranks]

Our approaching-4 grandson was here at the weekend... His mum was saying that she'd shown him a Bob the Builder episode recently. He kept asking 'What's that/what's he doing?' as Bob had taken a phone call on a landlinephone, then gone to his white/cream computer - complete with matching CRT monitor - and had then sent a fax...

The world moves on.... but not, apparently, for some if that advert is still to be believed.

I've just decomissioned my 9+ year old ex-SCAN i5 as it had suddenly started to slow down despite all my efforts at housekeeping and tuning. Replaced it with a small and virtually silent i7 with 16GB RAM and 512GB SSD... bought from Argos!

[OneWorld]

Our approaching-4 grandson was here at the weekend... His mum was saying that she'd shown him a Bob the Builder episode recently. He kept asking 'What's that/what's he doing?' as Bob had taken a phone call on a landlinephone, then gone to his white/cream computer - complete with matching CRT monitor - and had then sent a fax...

LOL

The way we're going someone will advertise a pony and trap and describe it as a retro car!

[OneWorld]

I've still got my 1998 vintage Pentium 2 studio computer although I'm not sure if it still works. I still have all my old soundcards too including a Turtle Beach Multisound, TB Maui and a Zefiro ZA-2.

WOW, a Turtle Beach soundcard, they really were a classic, I drooled over them!

[OneWorld]

I would want a Zip drive too for that kind of money

Really, at this price......

https://www.gumtree.com/p/samplers-sequ ... 1433584470

£150.00 !!!!