Guest Space Coyote Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 There's a pc recycling thing happening in my city this weekend and it's a great excuse to get rid of the bunch of dying and faded CRT monitors and computer cases that they normally charge like $10-$20 each to dump. In doing so I happened to come across our Ericsson Portable PC. This puppy was first released in 1985 and rocks the following specs '4.77 MHz processor and 256-512 kB of RAM' and it took the kind of floppy disks that were actually bendable and floppy. This is a picture of one, not ours, but its identical even down to the crayon looking smudges that give you the idea some kids gave it one hell of a work out before it found its way to the 'pc museum' Anyway fuck nostalgia. I searched on ebay and there's nothing for the "EPPC". Anyone know if this would be old and obscure enough to be worth some money these days? Where can I go to find out? Posted image - what the fuck?! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Space Coyote Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 I'm not into coding and I've got computers that...aren't 24 years old that I could code on if I wanted to. Sell it to you for $30 (not including shipping)? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gary C Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 LOL. We used to have something a little more modern. Essentially a word processor, wish I still had it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest mrcopyandpaste Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 Posted Image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Space Coyote Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 did you copy and paste that orrr? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Iain C Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 I would buy this from you as a curiosity, for playing old text adventures and such, but I think the international shipping would kill it. Financially I mean Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Space Coyote Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 Yeah dude 8kg. There's no point even looking that up, it's not going to be cheap unless there is some loophole with the exchange rate but even still - 8 goddamned kilograms. Do you know if there is some sort of by sea option that takes 2 months but only costs like $10? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 Short answer: no. Anything like that you can emulate easily on today's computers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest my usernames always really suck Posted August 14, 2009 Share Posted August 14, 2009 Short answer: no. Anything like that you can emulate easily on today's computers. DOSBOX is far from being 100% complete as far as functionality is concerned. I can run the original Doom and even old old old games like 3-Demon or Bouncing Babies, but not WordPerfect 4.2 or Lotus 1-2-3. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Space Coyote Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Short answer: no. Anything like that you can emulate easily on today's computers. While my particular pc may be worthless I disagree with the idea that any hardware or o/s that can be emulated is devalued because of it. Sure, I guess in the case of something more recent like nintendo 64 then this would be true but when you have stuff as old as the EPPC I would've thought some sort of collector, rarity, or enthusiast value would come into play. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Rabid Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 BUY OLD COMPUTER GET LAID TONIGHT Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
david Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 what the hell is it? none of the images work. is it this one? Posted Image Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Calx Sherbet Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 BUY OLD COMPUTER GET LAID TONIGHT 3. ?????? 4. PROFIT! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chenGOD Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 Short answer: no. Anything like that you can emulate easily on today's computers. DOSBOX is far from being 100% complete as far as functionality is concerned. I can run the original Doom and even old old old games like 3-Demon or Bouncing Babies, but not WordPerfect 4.2 or Lotus 1-2-3. YOU can run Lotus 1-2-3 on a symbian handheld under emulation: http://www.nb-info.co.uk/xtminfo.htm And I don't want to say for sure, but I would imagine it's entirely possible under bochs: http://bochs.sourceforge.net/ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Synthacat 9 Posted August 15, 2009 Share Posted August 15, 2009 you should do some installation with it like paint it or turn it into something Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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mcbpete Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 I has just bought brand news laptop to run internet Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BCM Posted August 16, 2009 Share Posted August 16, 2009 i got this coz it was called dragon Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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