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If I ever had to love a PC...
« on: December 18, 2014, 05:46:38 PM »
If I ever had to love a PC it might be this one I just stumbled accross (not my video):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8A-FTqZHrmA

The Schneider EuroPC II looks like it could have come right out of the Amiga production line ca. 1988!

http://oldmachinery.blogspot.ca/2013/03/schneider-europc.html
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Re: If I ever had to love a PC...
« Reply #1 on: December 18, 2014, 06:35:49 PM »
a girl i know had one around '90. wasnt too sexy. one could play lemmings on that though.
 

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Re: If I ever had to love a PC...
« Reply #2 on: December 18, 2014, 06:43:45 PM »
Would be a good candidate to put an Amiga motherboard into, or a modern PC motherboard booting straight into UAE.
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Re: If I ever had to love a PC...
« Reply #4 on: December 19, 2014, 09:12:52 AM »
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I wouldn't mind getting a hold of one of these...    Think of it as the Japanese Amiga.

https://www.google.com/search?site=&tbm=isch&source=hp&biw=&bih=&q=sharp+x68000&oq=sharp+x68000&gs_l=img.3...191.695.0.951.5.5.0.0.0.0.0.0..0.0.msedr...0...1ac.1.60.img..5.0.0._w1ZXxgyzGc


That looks like an MSX :)
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Re: If I ever had to love a PC...
« Reply #5 on: December 19, 2014, 09:33:59 AM »
The X68000 is a nice machine, a friend of mine has one and I'm still looking for one for my collection but they go quite high most of the time (well over 1000$ in Sweden and abroad you have the crazy shipping), they have a lot of PSU problems nowdays tho but it's quite trivial to fix for most of us :)

The IBM PC compatible PC I have never seen, would be nice to have in my collection but nothing I will hunt for, I have seen a few russian clone machines sell now and then with the "amiga" wedge look :)

But to buy it and replace the motherboard with a modern machine mini-ITX board would not be something I would do, it's not any form of recent standard on the innards anyways so would be the same hackjob as doing the same on any Amiga wedge and such a waste on a less common machine.

I wish for a Wedge case for a modern machine but without the connections to use CNC machines etc it's hell, so I have been thinking of experimenting with building one in pepakura and fiberglass and reinforced inside but doubt the results :/ ( will try to build a Fallout terminal before I try any wedge case to get the hang of it).
 

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Re: If I ever had to love a PC...
« Reply #6 on: December 19, 2014, 09:36:15 AM »
So it's an XT in a C128/C64 disguise.... run...
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Re: If I ever had to love a PC...
« Reply #7 on: December 19, 2014, 09:46:37 AM »
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So it's an XT in a C128/C64 disguise.... run...


Haha sometimes I wish we had a function to +rep a post :)
 

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Re: If I ever had to love a PC...
« Reply #8 on: December 19, 2014, 03:08:33 PM »
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So it's an XT in a C128/C64 disguise.... run...

Actually, when I first saw it I thought more: C65 !



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Re: If I ever had to love a PC...
« Reply #9 on: December 19, 2014, 04:36:34 PM »
I could see my self getting excited over having found one, say at a flea market or something. Then after I realized how much I just spent thinking I found a rare Amiga or Atari and ended up with a piece of crap under powered DOS machine, I'd be furious! :)
Earth has a lot of things other folks might want... like the whole planet. And maybe these folks would like a few changes made, like more carbon dioxide in the atmosphere and room for their way of life. - William S. Burroughs
 

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Re: If I ever had to love a PC...
« Reply #10 on: December 19, 2014, 06:35:44 PM »
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I could see my self getting excited over having found one, say at a flea market or something. Then after I realized how much I just spent thinking I found a rare Amiga or Atari and ended up with a piece of crap under powered DOS machine, I'd be furious! :)


Yeah, I should have stated in my original post, it's really the design of the case I like.  The PC guts don't thrill me (although an XT is starting to have a little bit of retro interest - but not much).
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