I cut my teeth on that thing — developed software to manage our wholesale camera repair shop — and ended up writing about VB programming after my health went in the toilet. (My health is now pretty much completely shot, and the industry has gotten so far away from me that I’d never catch up.)

I ran a BBS (“Town Crier”) on a Model 4P with the 300b Infernal Modem — hey, it worked :) (Especially after I recoded the editor portion :)

My Model 1 gave up the ghost eventually — died under the knife, so to speak. The Mumford Micro clock-speedup kit was more than it could handle. The smoke didn’t come out, but the machine was definitely dead, for keeps. A pity. Ah, the memories of my IDS printer (sounding like an advancing army) banging off invoices and repair quotes… and the lower case mod I soldered in (piggyback 21L02 and some surplus calculator keys, and a driver that Dennis Bathory Kitz wrote) made “word processing” somewhat usable too.

We ran out and bought a Model 4, to be able to keep running our business — the power supply died shortly after the warranty expired, so I bolted in a big honker of a linear supply to the floor of the cabinet — worked great. Pulled out the two SS drives and installed FOUR 720K half-height drives (80 tk, DS/DD). Wow, SO much storage! :)

Those were the days. We’re really spoiled now.

Have just enjoyed a pleasant hour browsing through your ever-expanding site. Good stuff!

Pity Model 4s are so rare here in New Zealand. I’d love to add one to my collection!