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I have a lot of vintage computers and am working on getting them set up where they can be used. I already have one of the Apple IIe's set up to be able to access the internet.
I have: Apple II+ Apple IIe Apple IIc Apple IIGS Several black and white Macintoshes Macintosh IILC 2 Osborne portables with very small screen Eagle metal cased portable Compaq portable DEC terminals, VT-220 to 320 (soon to get VT-100) Tandy Color Computers TRS-80 (can't remember model but it has built-in monitor) Commodore 64 Texas Instruments Home computer DEC Microvax |
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I've collected vintage computer equipment for a long time. Right now the "jewl" of my collection is an Apple Lisa 2/10. You can see pictures I've taken of it here: http://compu85.homeip.net/stuff/lisa/
I've always liked the IBM PS/2 line of computers, but I've been slowly getting rid of my stockpile of them. If anyone here is interested in PS/2s let me know, I just don't have the space to store them. Most of my collection is still at my parent's house back in Michigan -J |
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Nice Lisa....yum! I only have a few :
Tektronix 4051 Mac plus Mac Color Classic TRS 80 pocket computer, type 1 Indigo iBook G-3 jr Last edited by jr_tech; 09-17-2011 at 04:31 PM. Reason: add "Mac cat" pix |
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I just picked up a Compaq Portable from eBay. Sold as non working, some quick detective work found a paperclip floating around inside the machine, a bad cap on the floppy disk board, and a bad cap on the motherboard.
This one on the floppy board was easy to spot: Which I think damaged this one on the motherboard: That cap sits between the -12v rail and ground. It was short. One question though... how do you read the value on these caps? Is that one 10mf at 16 volts? Thanks, -J |
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I have a MITS Altair from 1976 and several Imsai. All running CPM on 8 inch floppies (clunk, clunk).
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Working in a thrift store allowed me to tinker with many old computers, which I would try to fix up and get ready to sell.
I don't really have much of a collection, but I do have a NOS, still in the box Packard Bell computer from c. 1996, and a c. 1993 Gateway computer that was made in the USA and built like a tank. I put a maxed out 486 motherboard in it, and it runs 3.1/95. I use it for vintage gaming or when I want that early Windows experience. My main computer, when I'm home on break, is one I built new in 2005 and has Windows 98SE on it. I haven't upgraded it, since it's lightning fast and there are patches out there that allow me to run the latest version of most software. Plus viruses/spyware are no longer an issue as nobody makes them for 98 anymore, lol. |
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my collection is all macintosh stuff. mostly. I have some older PC stuff as well, like a compaq LTE 150mhz with 80mb RAM module, and an old NEC versa V/75.
But 95% of what I have are all old macs. Powerbook Duos, a PB180/145/etc and a color classic, SE, SE/30, a 512K, 2 pluses, and a plus with a HyperDrive 20 upgrade that the HDD was removed (BOOOO) but the 030 accelerator is still in place inside the plus. macintosh LCIII, a powermac 5260 and 6400/250. a powerbook lombard, titanium 500mhz, 2 ibook G3s, and 1 ibook G4. busticated powerbook 1400, PB3400. iMac G5 with fuxored LCD panel. PB 520c with PPC upgrade, and a macintosh portable that still needs recapped. Yea.. and thats not including the ones i forgot to mention. What am I going to do with all these? I have no friggen idea. I only have a 14' by 30' room, and thats my living quarters. (bad economy, no house). I might keep a couple things, mostly the rarer stuff like the hyperdrive mac, the mac portable and 520c PPC card. rest of it i need to do something with. |
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I dragged home another TRS-80 today. It's really dirty as it's been sitting in a shed for years. Tomorrow I'm gonna start cleaning it up and eventually I'll test it to see if it still works.
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A 4A was my FIRST COMPUTER and it was OK i guess.... Then i got a C64 and i still love it now |
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I have a collection of just a few "vintage" computers:
two or three Timex Sinclair Z81...and one about half done as a kit (I should get on that) One Commodore VIC20....still works, but I don't really have it out One Commodore SX64 (REALLY love to play with that one sometimes) Now I am currently playing with an Atari800 (the big one..not the XL). I got it at a swap meet about a month ago, but it had a dead keyboard (typical for these). Got a replacement mobo and power board (didn't need the power board..but got one anyway). This fixed the keyboard problem I had tracked to the POKEY and two demux chips. Now I play with it on an RCA "prison TV" and with it's original 1010 datacassette unit (changed two belts). Got the original BASIC cartridge and the thing had a Pac-Man cartridge in it already. Lots of fun poking in stupid BASIC proggies and saving them on tapes. Really just for fun. I've had an "unintentional" collection of "really tiny laptops" for many years....starting with me buying a real small Hitachi palmtop back in the very early 90s....and then kept buying all the Toshiba Libretto machines from around 1995 until around 2006...and still have all those machines: CT50 (Win95)....and at least one parts machine CT70 (Win98)....and a couple parts machines CT101 (98SE)....(still play with sometimes U105 (XPproSP3)....is a Centrino, so is actually SLOW but still useful A couple of those little tiny VIA "Artigo" pico-ITX kits.....one is actually inside of an old 5" Craig LCD TV set as a mini portable HTPC. Asus 900HA (XPproSP3/Win7 Ultimate/Ubuntu)"netbook"....not really vintage, but it IS like five years old now....daily driver for work as my "away team" work on old Novell Netware 4.11 servers that only run IPX/SPX. It's a very odd collection...of which maybe half would be "vintage".....but the term is a bit loose for computers. Even a "new" laptop...is OLD after like a year these days.
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Overview: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j579s5cS4CA Cheesy Demo: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6n7GoNmgHGI Check out: http://www.vintage-computer.com/vcforum/forum.php |
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That looks like a nice site,its too bad they are on VB4 which is ugly crap
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I use an old IBM Model 8525.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/maceach...in/photostream http://www.flickr.com/photos/maceach...in/photostream Mine is "upgraded" to a 2GB SSD, instead of the original 20MB MFM drive it had. 8-bit ISA IDE card. |
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