Skeezics
2015-12-21 08:44:06 UTC
About a year ago a friend in Georgia came across a PERQ at a garage sale. He very graciously collected it for me, and helped get the various bits of it packed and shipped. The chassis, being the largest, heaviest and most irreplaceable part (Shugart SA4000-series drives are impossible to find anymore) took the greatest care and expense to have shipped. But, with perseverance, I managed to finally save up the pennies and make the arrangements with a freight company to pack and ship it to Oregon.
After a careful disassembly, cleaning and inspection, I captured the first attempt at powering up the machine on video:
If you've been curious (or are feeling reminiscent) to see and hear a PERQ-1 boot up, I don't know that there are many other videos on the web... This was my first YouTube effort, and it was a somewhat hastily put together in my dining room so the lighting and audio aren't stellar. I hope to capture a few more (better quality) videos of the machine running demos and games, and show off the PERQ for a new generation... or at least the half a dozen of you out there that might still care about this nifty old machine! :-)
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s. boondoggle
perq fanatic
After a careful disassembly, cleaning and inspection, I captured the first attempt at powering up the machine on video:
If you've been curious (or are feeling reminiscent) to see and hear a PERQ-1 boot up, I don't know that there are many other videos on the web... This was my first YouTube effort, and it was a somewhat hastily put together in my dining room so the lighting and audio aren't stellar. I hope to capture a few more (better quality) videos of the machine running demos and games, and show off the PERQ for a new generation... or at least the half a dozen of you out there that might still care about this nifty old machine! :-)
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s. boondoggle
perq fanatic