My last post and the comment I made in reply to 'Chains' spurs me on to post what I have been thinking since seeing the EeePC type machines.

At last computing has stopped going backwards!

In the very early 1980's I built and ran a Nascom 2 computer. That was an all solid state machine. We loaded from cassette tape and dreamt of having all applications in ROM if we couldn't already afford Read Only Memory.

A local Ham demonstrated the new 5.25 inch Floppy Disk Drive and a huge Hard Disc Drive at the local club.

My comments :- 'That is ridiculous, you cannot introduce mechanical devices into computers. We need them to go faster using parallel RAM not clunk clunk mechanical serial devices.'

Go mechanical they did and the PC was born, I stubbornly ignored them, waiting for someone to see through Microsoft. I missed out on a the start of the PC revolution that way.

Now here they are, computers that are once again all solid state. If the Millions of Dollars of development cash that was spent on mechanical clunking was spent on solid state storage development I wonder where computing would be now.

Take a look at my Nascom here :- NASCOM

Which brings me to another thought, I have the Nascom in the shack at the moment. I don't know if I will ever get round to doing much with it. So is there an enthusiast out there who would dearly love to get their hands on a Nassie.

Drop me a line and you may get a goodie for a very small fee.