Reid Fleming Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 I must be bored -An old ABACUS -a Japanese Casio calculator which did calculus cost-$400 in 1977 -C64 -Apple IIe -Atari 800 -AST 3/25 laptop - 386 w/math coprocessor 4 megs of ram and 800 mb HD and one of the first color screens. retail - $4195.95 in 1994. And how do I know this? My friend worked there and figured it out - but could not say anything b/c he back doored it to me. My cost free ninety free. Used as a doorstop now. -AST 486sl see above Here is a factoid: The Commadore 64 is likely the most used (length of time wise) of any computer system ever (industrial use). About 5-6 years ago when I was working out of green jell-o, ed the analog editor and the smartest person I have ever known came in one day like he found a parking space nearby.Nope he found 2 C64s at a goodwill in burbank, which I learned was way better than a place to park and even rarer than a I was (an unmarried heterosexual artist w/mad skills in hollywood) b/c studios sent production assistants (fancy title for underpaiid slaves) combing the area for them. Why??? Teleprompters. I am sure right now as I typing this some meat puppet somewhere is reading off one. If you keep an eye out when 'live' type shows pan back you'll see some fat balding guy typing and most likey its a C64. It's like they were made to be out of the box teleprompters. While I am spinnin yarns here is a factiod bout ol Ed, whom by the way is a multi emmy recipient for editing-can't remember what for though. What I do remember about his resume was that he had the job of editing every scene that Traci Lords appeared in and splice in another scene with another porn queen of the day (mostly Ginger Lynn he said). And that was all analog back then. no avid bay,but that still has it's merits he has what probably now is a small fortune b/c he still has all the edited film. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Havoc 2049 Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 I have an Atari XEGS w/1050 disk drive and it's hooked up to my 16:9 widescreen HDTV. I play it in 4:3 mode though. I love that the XEGS has A/V hook-ups. Atari 1040STe, 4MB RAM, 60MB hard drive, SC1224 color monitor, HP Deskjet printer, stereo speakers and Atari Powerpad. Still use it to this day, for AtariWorks and of course GAMES! Ahh...the computer that I wanted when I was young, but couldn't afford it and bought an Amiga 500 instead. Ahhh...livin' the dream. Back in the day, when they were new, I owned: Atari 400 C-64c Atari 520ST Amiga 500 w/1MB of RAM I loved Atari and would start out with one. They wold be cool at first and get all the cool software and games and then the support would start to dwindle and I would end up with a Commie. I loved my C-64c and Amiga 500 computers though, great machines and all the cool..GAMES! .....then I jumped to the dark side and joined the masses and bought a DOS/Windows PC in 1994. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rob Mitchell Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 HP95LX Palmtop (2) HP100LX Palmtops (3) HP200LX Palmtops Atari 800 (I owned one of these in 1981-83) (2) Atari 800XLs Atari XEGS Atari 520ST TI99/4 I still use my HP200LX DOS based Palmtop daily!! I write code and compile on it! My Vectrex 6809 compiler runs on it! I wish DASM would run on it too! Rob Mitchell, Atlanta, GA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Major Havoc 2049 Posted November 8, 2004 Share Posted November 8, 2004 BTW, awesome story Reid Fleming, classic. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
A2600 Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 UPDATE: (since last post here!!) 1040STf (1MB Ram) ~ SC1224 Samsung Mega STe (4MB Ram) ~ SC1224 Samsung Atari 800 (48K) ~ 1050 Drive/RANA Drive Atari 130XE Intellivision Computer Module (Keyboard & Piano) BTW I have 1 SC1224 not 2 as it looks!! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tickled_Pink Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 Of the Atari gear, I have a few of the XL and ST machines (many upgraded), but here goes a short list: Atari 800XL Atari 800 Atari ST (various) Atari Mega 1 Sinclair Spectrum 48K Sinclair Spectrum 16K (Issue One - with the hand drawn PCB) Um ... that's it, I think. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_8bit_16bit Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 For classic computers I have: Commodore 128 Texas Instruments TI99/4A (I don't think this counts BUT) Odyssey 2 These may not be considered classics, but: Apple Macintosh FDHD 68030 (with the little black and white screen circa 1988) IBM 386 with Windows 3.1 in color circa 1987 And if I don't do some major upgrading soon then my daily use computers are gonna end up being classics before I know it! CTX storebuilt computer with a 350MHz PII, upgraded to 512MB of RAM, with 2 HDs (an 80GB running XP Pro and a 15GB running Win98) A custom built computer with a 366MHz k6-2 and 512MB of RAM, with 2 HDs (an 8GB running Win2000 and a 4GB used for extra data space) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr_8bit_16bit Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 My Power Mac dual G4 at least has a little bit of clout left to it, I guess. It's 4yrs old, but Macs age so much more gracefully than PCs. It's got dual G4 Risc Power PCs in it (or roughly the equivalent of dual 900MHz PIIIs, which would roughly come out to being about the same as a 1.5-1.7GHz PIII since going dual processor doesn't quite double the clock speed) And it's got 394MB of RAM and a DVD-Rom and an external CD-RW. I'm running OSX.3 (or Panther). It's not top of the line anymore, but it's still a respectable computer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ozyr Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 Without checking my list, here's what I'm sure I have: Sinclair ZX81 Timex/Sinclair 1000 Timex/Sinclair 1500 Timex/Sinclair 2068 TI 99/4A Commodore 64 Apple IIE Apple IIGS Apple IIC and a huge collection of classic Macintosh systems (68000 chipset and up) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Curt Vendel Posted November 9, 2004 Share Posted November 9, 2004 Just made a nice acquisition recently: Apple /// with a pair of /// disk drives and a Profile hard disk. I also forgot from my previous post: A DEC Pro380 Workstation Curt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Emehr Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 Apple IIgs "Woz" Edition ($10 at a yard sale!) That's all I've got for old 'puters. I guess my Performa 6116CD (ca. 1996) could be considered a classic in "computer years" . - Jason Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osbo Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 I must be bored -An old ABACUS -a Japanese Casio calculator which did calculus cost-$400 in 1977 -C64 -Apple IIe -Atari 800 -AST 3/25 laptop - 386 w/math coprocessor 4 megs of ram and 800 mb HD and one of the first color screens. retail - $4195.95 in 1994. And how do I know this? My friend worked there and figured it out - but could not say anything b/c he back doored it to me. My cost free ninety free. Used as a doorstop now. -AST 486sl see above Here is a factoid: The Commadore 64 is likely the most used (length of time wise) of any computer system ever (industrial use). About 5-6 years ago when I was working out of green jell-o, ed the analog editor and the smartest person I have ever known came in one day like he found a parking space nearby.Nope he found 2 C64s at a goodwill in burbank, which I learned was way better than a place to park and even rarer than a I was (an unmarried heterosexual artist w/mad skills in hollywood) b/c studios sent production assistants (fancy title for underpaiid slaves) combing the area for them. Why??? Teleprompters. I am sure right now as I typing this some meat puppet somewhere is reading off one. If you keep an eye out when 'live' type shows pan back you'll see some fat balding guy typing and most likey its a C64. It's like they were made to be out of the box teleprompters. While I am spinnin yarns here is a factiod bout ol Ed, whom by the way is a multi emmy recipient for editing-can't remember what for though. What I do remember about his resume was that he had the job of editing every scene that Traci Lords appeared in and splice in another scene with another porn queen of the day (mostly Ginger Lynn he said). And that was all analog back then. no avid bay,but that still has it's merits he has what probably now is a small fortune b/c he still has all the edited film. I belive John Harris, after he left Sierra OnLine, started to program for tv studios something like that in his atari 800... here's the link (I just found it http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/HARRIS.HTM) I have: 1 atari 800xl without power supply (it's in the mail) 2 TI99/4 (one with the plastic case and another one in the metallic) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Osbo Posted November 10, 2004 Share Posted November 10, 2004 where's the edit?? here's the link http://www.dadgum.com/halcyon/BOOK/HARRIS.HTM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cbmeeks Posted March 10, 2022 Share Posted March 10, 2022 On 11/8/2004 at 1:30 PM, cbmeeks said: Here is what is in my inventory...all work except where noted Commodore: ======== 1) Commodore 64C 2) Commodore 128 3) Commodore Vic-20 4) Amiga 500 5) Amiga 500 (yes, two of them) 6) Amiga 1200 7) Amiga 2000 Commodore Plus/4 ** Atari ==== 1) Atari XEGS 2) Atari 600XL 3) Atari 520 STf ** Apple ==== 1) Apple IIe 2) Apple IIe (yes, two of them) 3) Macintosh SE 30 (B/W model) 4) Apple IIgs Rom 1** 5) Apple IIgs Rom 3 Other ==== 1) TI 994/a Silver 2) TI 994/a Beige 3) Compaq 286 "Portable" Suitcase 4) Tandy ??? (Never turned it on) ** Modern ===== 1) P4 1.6 GHz WinXP Home PC 2) P3 450 Mhz Gateway 2000 3) AMD 1GHz PC Consoles ====== 1) GameCube 2) Atari 2600 3) XBox 4) GameBoy 5) GameBoy Color 6) GameBoy Advance ** - Commodore Plus/4 - Works but crashes all the time ** - Atari STf - no PSU...don't know if works ** - Apple IIgs Rom 1 - Turns on but only get garbage on screen ** - Tandy?? My wife gave it to me...can't even remember what it i Hey, @cbmeeks from 2004....this is future cbmeeks from 2022. That tiny collection you have will grow to well over 100 vintage computers. You have a sickness...seek help. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 At present just a 486, Pentium II/III, and Pentium-M in the vintage PC department. In the future I may build up Core2 Duo or similar. Then I've got my most of my original Apple II material in form of a few consoles along with many accessories and peripherals spanning the whole model range. Some of this can be de-duplicated and rightsized. Back in the day I had it all. All the cartridge systems, all the 8-bit rigs. You name it. Today I do it all in emulation while maintaining the previously listed material because it's sentimental. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
zzip Posted December 12, 2022 Share Posted December 12, 2022 I sold most of my old hardware, right not the most "classic" computer I have is a 5x86/133 (really a 486 with 4X clock) from around 1995 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted December 13, 2022 Share Posted December 13, 2022 My first PC (486) represents to me the pinnacle of original and traditional PC architecture. It has many 286/386 overtones and limitations. Has: 8 16-bit ISA slots on 8 MHz bus 32/64MB Memory @ 25MHz 8 30-pin SIMM sockets L2 direct-mapped cache 4167 Weitek co-processor socket Supports CPU bus external bus speeds of 20, 25, 33, and 50MHz Keyboard controller Basic peripherals such as a clock chip with CMOS settings EPROM BIOS with few options, simple options. No significant extended chipset controls A custom memory expansion card, which is nothing more than 8 SIMM sockets in parallel and a couple of TTL buffers. Does not have: VLB or PCI slots Flashable BIOS Overdrive socket Onboard Serial and Parallel ports Onboard Hard Disk and Floppy ports Voltage regulators PS/2 ports or USB ports Extended BIOS with chipset controls. As one can see, this machine is firmly pre-Pentium, pre-PNP, pre-Windows'95. I used it from 1992 till about 2004. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+stupus Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 Man, i never really thought about how many I had as I collect cart based consoles more....but I have alot more than I thought! 1. Commodore Pet 2. Atari 400 3. Atari Compuvision (3) 4. Atari XEGS 5. Apple ][+ 6. Apple ][e 7. Mac 512k 8. Tomy Pyutta 9. Tomy Tutorvision 10. Dragon Tano 11. Tandy Coco 1 (3) 12. Tandy Coco 2 (2) 13. Tandy Coco 3 14. Commodore Vic-20 15. Commodore C-64 (5) 16. Commodore 64C 17. Commodore SX64 18. Commodore 16 19. Commodore 4-plus 20. Commodore Amiga 500 21. Mega Duck Lerncomputer 22. Mega Duck Super Quique 23. TI-99 4a (2) 24. APF Imagination Machine 25. Coleco Adam (6) 26. Mattel Aquarius (5) 27. Radofin Aquarius 28. Greek Aquarius 29. Bally Home Computer w/ Blue Ram 30. Intellivision ECS (4) 31. Vtech Laser 2001 32. Spectrevideo SVI 328 33. Phillips N60 34. Phillips 7200 33. Schneider 7200 34. Bit Corp Bit 90 (3) 35. Creativision (3) 36. Kaypro 4 37. TRS-80 Model 1 38. NEC PC8801 39. NEC Trek 40. Cosmac Elf 41. ComX And likely a couple more i can't think of! Currently I'm after: But Corp Bit 60 Video Brain Exist Sorcerer And probably some others Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keatah Posted December 20, 2022 Share Posted December 20, 2022 I see a Cosmac Elf, but no KIM-1 ?? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+stupus Posted December 21, 2022 Share Posted December 21, 2022 2 hours ago, Keatah said: I see a Cosmac Elf, but no KIM-1 ?? No not yet, but i would definitely love 1! And to be fair the Elf is 1 built to exact specs from the 1976 popular electronics article Made with much help from the great, late Ed Keefe. Great guy and dearly missed from the forums here! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gamemoose Posted January 3, 2023 Share Posted January 3, 2023 I just got back into retro computing by picking up a 64K CoCo 2 from EricBall with a bunch of carts. I just got my cassette interface cable today and a CoCo SDC is on its way from Britain. Years back I was more console but I did have: Ti-99/4A with speech synthesizer module Commodore 64 (“c” edition-looks like a 128) with floppy drive and monitor. CoCo 3 (kick myself for selling it) Atari 600XL (never used) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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