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Shiunbird wrote: I'm always delighted when I see someone learning Portuguese. People only seem to be interested in learning Spanish...
Feel free to ask if you need help. I know both Brazilian and European Portuguese well (in terms of spelling differences, grammar usage and unique expressions), although my accent is 100% Brazilian.

I thought your accent was French actually. Oooops

Probably because it's fairly soft and your pronunciation of ð is the same. I pictured you as an Italian French guy with the latest in European fashion, lugging around various System i and mainframes. Monsieur Shiunoiseau.

Sorry, I have a fairly vivid imagination and it gets the best of me at times.

Couple of LSI 9211-8i's to handle the twin drive cages of an HP DL380 G6 destined to run VMs at the colo...

After like a year waiting for Sweetwater to get them back in stock, I've finally plunked down for an Oberheim SEM reissue (patch-panel edition.) Looking forward to finally getting this

Raion-Fox wrote: Those are nice. My father has one from a Soviet clock. Is yours beige, with black background, a red star and the wind-up under the hands?

This is how it looks. It is a heavy clock weighing several pounds. No plastic parts at all, except the spacers between the metal plate and the movement. The artwork on the dial says Typhoon and has an art of a Typhoon class submarine.

I'll get a pic of the one in my father's shop sometime this week. Nice clock

Raion-Fox wrote: I'll get a pic of the one in my father's shop sometime this week. Nice clock

Thanks. I think so too.

That is a beautiful device.

Trash-80 Model 4. Super low serial number too, it's serial number 238.

Man you're buying an awful lot of stuff!

I put a DX7 Special Edition ROM in my DX7, which fixes the buggy MIDI implementation and offers some expanded features for $15

It comes and goes. After the Model 4 I'll go back to buying mostly parts for a while.

I'm yanking your chain. I bought no less than $400 worth of vintage gear this passed week. I did however pick up some stuff at a recycler and sell it to offset my costs (an old Alpha system I already had a buyer for, a spare PDP-11 for a customer of mine, and a PC XT that went to my cousin)

Yeah, I've got some Macs and PCs that will be sold off over the summer. Probably some of them will be replaced with other machines though.

Currently I have three PCs, all laptops, 8 SGIs, two Suns and a C64C. Its funny that most of my computers I own are as old as, or older than me

Oh yeah, I'm still on again off again looking for a Sun pizza box. I have a C64 too but since it doesn't work I'm just going to sell it for parts. Probably will sell the 1541 floppy drive I bought with it too.

Raion-Fox wrote: Currently I have three PCs, all laptops, 8 SGIs, two Suns and a C64C. Its funny that most of my computers I own are as old as, or older than me

I have 3 desktop PCs. Four laptops. Four SGIs, one Sun and an Alpha.

I have seven desktop PCs, one laptop, one Sun and four SGIs (only two of which are in my sig because so far there's no sig image for the Onyx4, of which I have two).

And speaking of clocks (as we were a few posts above), I'm sure you've all heard the rather amazing story of "Clock B" by now:

http://wornandwound.com/the-240-year-old-pendulum-clock-thats-more-accurate-than-your-watch/

I've got at least 20 machines all told, counting laptops. It miiiight be time to downsize a tad.

Two Dell flat panel TFTs at a thrift store for $15, a 1907fp and a s1709wc. 1280x1024 and 1440x900 respectively, so not high end, but good enough for their use case!

1280x1024 is as high as anyone actually needs outside of medical imaging anyway.