Above is a Macintosh 128K I used to own. A beautiful and revolutionary machine from 1984. I used to be wild about computers, old computers in particular. I got very many old computers when I was a teenager. Eventually though I stopped, then the weight of all of them felt enormous. So I got rid of them. Now I miss my old computers but it is nice to not have so much. Ah, but the AT&T Unix PC, what a grand machine. My holy grail of old computers was the IBM 5100. I never did get one, I've never even seen one in real life, but I still do dream. One thing that sours me to computers and other machines is that they break. A coin will be pretty much the same for hundreds or thousands of years if well kept. Computers aren't so lucky. Just sitting somewhere for a few years can kill them. That is another reason I gave up my collection. The worry of coming home, trying to play with one of the old systems, and finding them dead. In 2004, after the death of my IBM Thinkpad 600, I had no working computer with me. I was tempted to get a Macintosh, as those are what I prefer, to replace it, but in the end I went for another IBM laptop. My first website was dedicated to old computers and below I have linked a copy of it, now hosted with this site.

Here it is my first site. I haven't changed it much. Just removed some annoying stuff that had to be there for where it was hosted before. On this site the images are very much not my own. They were found almost entirely from other sites. Also I am not 18 and living on the Big Island, but 27 and living elsewhere.

Loren's Great Waste of Bandwidth!

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