Are you multi-platform

[Mr.Amiga500]

Very nice pics amiga500!!

 

Thanks! A few more photos...

 

 

(not pictured in the closet: Vic20 box, C64 box, various drives, C= dot matrix printer, trackballs, bookcase full of manuals, thousands of floppies)

Edited January 10, 2015 by Mr.Amiga500

[kogden]

Leaving PC's, tablets, modern macs and smartphones/tablets out of the mix and just including exotic/old machines I'm down to:

 

Atari 400, 800, 600XL, 800XL and 130XE

DEC VAXstation 3100, VAX 4000/300, VAX 4000/200

SGI Indy R5000

Sun SPARC classic, SPARCstation 5, Ultra 2e

PowerMac G4 tower

 

I had some other stuff but I slimmed down. Some of this really needs to go too.

[Joey Z]

 

My old amber screen DEC VT220 chirps when a key is pressed. It'll do 132 column text as well but most left it at 80. I'm pretty sure the VT420 chirps as well. There's an option to turn it off or on with most DEC serial terminals I'm pretty sure.

 

DEC was around for a long time.... the gubmint bought plenty of the later Alpha machines too which could run UNIX, VMS or Windows NT and those machines would often have a terminal plugged in as a serial console. I still use my VT220 fairly often.

My VT420 does chirp from the KB, yes. It's a nice terminal to have around for stuff, small enough to move even if it is a tube. I also have a DEC VXT2000, a hardware thinclient Xterm. I had it working with a linux PC at one time, but it has limited use since I don't have a DEC puck mouse for it. I thought about programming a microcontroller to use a PS/2 mouse with it, but I never got past the 'thinking about it' stage. I also don't have a proper connector for the monitor ouput, it's a DA3W3, so I had wires running out of it to go into my CRT's BNC inputs

[576XE]

I have IBM RS/6000 Model 43P-7248 with IBM AIX 4.3

They say that OS/2 can be installed too, but I have not bootable iso image.

[Stormtrooper of Death]

Last week i got some new additions to my collection:

 

4 x Psion 3a computers. (1 x 256Kb and 3x512kb)

[gamer-stu]

I used to collect Commodore 64 stuff. I completely switched to emulation after trying to source a replacement 64. They just don't hold up, you have to be very careful with the power supply, it's a crap shoot whether you'll get a working SID (many have blown channels or have been completely harvested from working machines for chip tunes), and good luck finding a working 1541 that doesn't need alignment.

 

Ataris, at least XL and prior, are built like brick outhouses. Plus the SIO2SD offers modern conveniences while still granting the real hardware experience.

 

Put another way, I like pre-Tramiel Ataris and post-Tramiel Commodores (i.e. Amiga, which could be called a pre-Tramiel Atari ).

Edited January 12, 2015 by gamer-stu

[Reds1f14]

I think if you are online here on Atariage, you're most likely are using a Windows PC, MAC PC, or mobile device. Makes you multiplatform.

 

I currently do programming for the PC in multiple programming languages. Did some Turbo Basic with short ML calls. Could never do these full ML programs like some do on here.

[Keatah]

Mr.Amiga500,

 

Those are some very aesthetically pleasing photos from a technical and artistic point of view. Classy. Elegant. Sophisticated.

[flashjazzcat]

I think if you are online here on Atariage, you're most likely are using a Windows PC, MAC PC, or mobile device. Makes you multiplatform.

 

A truism which is semantically correct, but the question relates to the vintage machines.

[peteym5]

I certainly use my PC for much more than Atari emulation related stuff. I do most of my game development on a Windows PC because of all the files I have to edit and manipulate. Gets too cumbersome to do it in DOS or on an Atari. I do some real hardware test drawing for graphics just to see how it will look before encoding it into data.

[flashjazzcat]

Just wondering how many people here collect old computers besides Atari here?

[Mr.Amiga500]

Mr.Amiga500,

 

Those are some very aesthetically pleasing photos from a technical and artistic point of view. Classy. Elegant. Sophisticated.

 

Thanks! I try my best to show the beauty of the old computers and keyboards. They certainly don't make them like they used to.