Midnight Pub

Computer Warehouse

~contrarian

Inspired by foone and https://www.yergens.net/frostbyte.html

SUSPENSION OF DISBELIEF BEYOND THIS LINE

I am the proprietor of Computer Warehouse. Warehouse less as in fulfillment center and more of Hangar 51 from Indiana Jones. I have the pleasure of distributing machines that don't quite exist (yet?) or perhaps do but currently in a lesser form. If buying used, you can be sure of the provenance as the same care is taken as with sourcing new pieces and I personally keep track of where they all end up as much as humanly possible.

A commitment to patronize this establishment is the exact opposite of travelling down the well-beaten path to arrive at a bog standard battlestation.

Our motto is "we have everything other than the things we don't have."

Try our jar with every adapter under the sun!


tatterdemalion

I've been trying to track down an Anodyne AD-1 for a while, but even the "for parts only" units I can find on the auction sites are too pricy.

Anodyne AD-1 (🖼️🕸️)
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m15o

i love that!

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ew

Ohhhh look! A box of RTX2010 controllersssss! Nice! Would a fiver be good enough? Yes??? Thanks so much!

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starbreaker

Got any secondhand HAL systems? Looking for a model 9001.

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tetris

wow, a Genera Lisp OS -- now that is cool. These are OS's you've used, or you worked on?

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contrarian

You noticed our little demo station of Open Genera running on a DEC Alpha emulator. I'm afraid I'm only a salesman of things like product literature. I can't pull stock when the divergence is too great so much of what you see before you is from the cache of a wealthy eccentric. I do have a Symbolics MacIvory portable - a pre-installed add-in board in a Macintosh Portable shell. Don't ask me how they managed that one! I have copies of Nichimen N-World here. Various Lisp machine keyboards excluding the Knight keyboard. You may be interested in a more realistic option available through mail order, the Keymacs keyboard. We do fundraise for Fare Rideau's TUNES and Loper OS.

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tetris

It must have really felt like Lisp was going to take over the world back then, especially with all the hardware dedicated to it. It's sad what Gosling produced instead took over (at least for a while) due to his beef with RMS

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contrarian

I'm not qualified to speak on that.

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