I was one of the very earliest people to notice this listing (on Craigslist at the time) - what they leave out of this article is the fact that the dude’s main business is selling pirate Android...
I was one of the very earliest people to notice this listing (on Craigslist at the time) - what they leave out of this article is the fact that the dude’s main business is selling pirate Android TV boxes on a website that looks like it escaped from 2003. The rabbit hole is quite deep. Was kind of a shame though, he was initially listing at 20 bucks a pop and we were trying to organize a big group buy to get these into the hands of collectors for cheap, but listing eventually got noticed more and the prices kept going up and up and he stopped talking to us in the end.
What a wild story. It's crazy to think that the only reason these saw the light of day is because they were not turned into phones. Also really big props to the people who actually reverse...
What a wild story. It's crazy to think that the only reason these saw the light of day is because they were not turned into phones. Also really big props to the people who actually reverse engineered the network and brought it back up! As a computer science student I really wish I had opportunities to do stuff like this but would never know where to start.
I would love to buy one but it's a bit out of my price range at $100. Luckily my local computing museum is getting two in. I can't wait to pop in to try them out.
These computer mills are absolutely abhorrent. I remember seeing a news report on a computer mill found in a nearby town and the images were simply horrific. An Apple IIGS locked inside of a cage...
These computer mills are absolutely abhorrent. I remember seeing a news report on a computer mill found in a nearby town and the images were simply horrific. An Apple IIGS locked inside of a cage with barely enough room to insert a floppy disk. An emaciated PC Jr. who hasn't been indoors for years, left outside to endure the elements with barely enough power and RAM. Even more disgusting was how the owner of the computer mill was trying to mate a Timex Sinclair with a Commodore 64. Let's just say the ones which survived should not have survived.
Adopt, don't shop. Let's end this nightmare of computer mills that many people overlook.
I was one of the very earliest people to notice this listing (on Craigslist at the time) - what they leave out of this article is the fact that the dude’s main business is selling pirate Android TV boxes on a website that looks like it escaped from 2003. The rabbit hole is quite deep. Was kind of a shame though, he was initially listing at 20 bucks a pop and we were trying to organize a big group buy to get these into the hands of collectors for cheap, but listing eventually got noticed more and the prices kept going up and up and he stopped talking to us in the end.
What a wild story. It's crazy to think that the only reason these saw the light of day is because they were not turned into phones. Also really big props to the people who actually reverse engineered the network and brought it back up! As a computer science student I really wish I had opportunities to do stuff like this but would never know where to start.
I would love to buy one but it's a bit out of my price range at $100. Luckily my local computing museum is getting two in. I can't wait to pop in to try them out.
These computer mills are absolutely abhorrent. I remember seeing a news report on a computer mill found in a nearby town and the images were simply horrific. An Apple IIGS locked inside of a cage with barely enough room to insert a floppy disk. An emaciated PC Jr. who hasn't been indoors for years, left outside to endure the elements with barely enough power and RAM. Even more disgusting was how the owner of the computer mill was trying to mate a Timex Sinclair with a Commodore 64. Let's just say the ones which survived should not have survived.
Adopt, don't shop. Let's end this nightmare of computer mills that many people overlook.
You are demented and I like it.