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    From Bo Holt@1:129/305 to All on Tue Nov 3 21:46:51 2026
    Greetings, all!

    I just got a rather large haul of vintage machines amd peripherals and some other random techy things. It started with me going to just get an Apple II Plus with some rare cards and grew into me having to leave some things because our vehicle was full... hoping to go back this weekend and grab a couple more. I made a video, and it is divided into chapters for easily hitting areas of interest. youtube.com/bollingholt

    Hope you are all well!
    Bo

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  • From Petar Smilajkov@1:226/20 to Bo Holt on Wed Nov 4 20:45:56 2026
    On 2026-11-03 21:46:00, Bo Holt wrote to All:

    I just got a rather large haul of vintage machines amd peripherals and some other random techy things

    Holly cow! That's a lot.

    All I want is an SGI Tezro. One of these days.

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  • From Kurt Weiske@1:218/700 to Petar Smilajkov on Thu Nov 5 07:45:10 2026
    Petar Smilajkov wrote to Bo Holt <=-

    All I want is an SGI Tezro. One of these days.

    I've pretty much weaned myself off of classic hardware and have a couple
    of virtualized systems when I feel nostalgic. I would like to have an
    Octane or Visual workstation, though. Loved the hardware.

    In the late 90s, I worked in an environment with SUN workstations for
    mail and network services, a gaming graphics team on SGIs, and corporate environment on Windows NT. A handful of Macs for the marketing team.
    That was a fun environment to work in.



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  • From Bo Holt@1:129/305 to Petar Smilajkov on Thu Nov 5 19:02:53 2026

    Holly cow! That's a lot.

    All I want is an SGI Tezro. One of these days.

    CloudDancer

    It would be really cool to have some SGI equipment. It's out of my area of expertise, but I'd love some of the equipment used to make "Terminator 2"!

    I think the only thing left for me to collect to rebuild my entire youthful collection is an Amstrad PC1512DD with a color display... with the disk drives that had the straight levers, preferably. I've been looking for one for a while.

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  • From Bo Holt@1:129/305 to Kurt Weiske on Thu Nov 5 19:04:06 2026
    In the late 90s, I worked in an environment with SUN workstations for
    mail and network services, a gaming graphics team on SGIs, and corporate environment on Windows NT. A handful of Macs for the marketing team.
    That was a fun environment to work in.

    Oh, I bet it was fun!

    ... It doesn't work, but it looks pretty.

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