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-x+__John Orwin's Retrocomputing Page__ 
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 +I am a retired engineer (old-timer) and worked for many years at GTE, AT&T, and Northrop Grumman. 
 +I held off getting a personal computer until 1986, since I had access to the best stuff at work. Nothing seemed interesting until the introduction of the Amiga 1000, which I still have. 
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 +I have been collecting hardware since the 90's and my current interests are: 
 +  * Amiga 
 +  * Sun early systems 
 +  * DEC PDP and VAX systems 
 +  * AT&T UNIX systems 
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 +I like to find something old and obscure and bring it back to life - both hardware and software. 
 +Some projects which you may have seen at prior VCF shows include: 
 +  * My Amiga collection 
 +  * Symbolics LISP systems 
 +  * Apollo Domain workstations 
 +  * AT&T systems - 3B2 UNIX and 386-based 
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 +I hope to use this Wiki to post documentation on my many projects, to help those to come.  I'm too old-school to create YouTube videos, so everything will be text. 
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 +P.S I am planning on off-loading a lot of my collection, so stay tuned for more information. 
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 +- John 
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