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Old 06-24-2011, 08:37 PM
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Who collects vintage computers?

I'm sitting here this evening enjoying some sparkling wine and browsing Videokarma with a vintage 2001 iMac and am happy to report that the site works perfectly well with this old hardware. I know there are a handful of Videokarma members who are into vintage Macintosh computers, but is anyone into collecting/restoring/using any other vintage platforms? My collection consists mostly of Apple II and Macintosh. However, I'm interested in knowing who out there is into collecting other platforms such as Atari, Apple II, CP/M, Commodore, IBM PC/jr, TRS-80, TI 99/4a, and so forth.
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Old 06-25-2011, 05:37 PM
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I've seen a TRS 80 at a good will once, and I know someone who has one. But I hate old computers. My folks always had the crummyest ancient junkers growing up, and just looking at the pre GUI interface bored me to tears, and killed all interest in any digital equipment for many many years(for a five year old who could barely read and hated doing so, a pre GUI device will kill any interest in computers).

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Old 06-25-2011, 06:35 PM
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I have a few......
Bell & Howell (rebadged Apple II)
Commodore 64
Amiga 2000
Amiga 4000
Mac Intosh (1st model from early 80's)
TI99
several oddball custom-built machines
early 80's IBM (don't remember which model)
and the machine on my desk which sees regular use is a Gateway 2000 from '98 which is running Windows 98 SE.
They all work fine and I still play games on them occaisionally.
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Old 06-25-2011, 07:15 PM
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I keep all my computers:
TI99/4 and TI99/4A with TI expansion box for game development
Commodore 64 with original Sequencial Circuits MIDI cartridge for Synthesyzers
IBM AT 6 Mhz which I bought in 1984 as IBM employee

I have several special video cards for doing Chroma key (Blue background) etc which I bought new in late 1980s and cost 2-3 times the price of the computer.

I have core memory from a couple of 1960s computers
I have maintenance console from IBM 360 mainframe
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Old 06-25-2011, 07:54 PM
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I found a 1984 "Bondwell" portable, model 14 a while back.
Orange CRT, two 5.5" drives.
It powers on but the obscure operating system is loaded from a floppy disc that I don't have and don't know how to get.

Looks like this one.
http://utopia.knoware.nl/users/stuurmn/bw1214.htm
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Old 06-25-2011, 08:18 PM
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I have a Compaq DeskPro from about 1985 I would love to sell. I even have an extra monitor. It was upgraded with two 30 MB hard drives and a math coprocessor. I suspect the clock battery has corroded some nearby circuitry but I haven't looked.

I bought this thing new and got a few years out of it. MS-DOS 6.1 or something. Two floppy drives 5.25". It's been in the garage without being plugged in for at least 15 years.
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Old 06-26-2011, 09:58 AM
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Eric,

You could probably email the owner of the bondwell on the link you posted and ask if he could make you a copy of the CPM OS on a 5 1/2 diskette. It may boot an early version of IBM or Microsoft DOS since Z80 and 8080 are inthe same family of CPU chips. IBM was going to use CPM as their OS for the first IBM PC but the owner didn't show up for the scheduled meeting. So IBM decided to use DOS from Microsoft instead. IBM did use CPM on their POS cash registers until they brought out OS2 ver. 1.
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Old 06-26-2011, 07:04 PM
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Originally Posted by truetone36 View Post
I have a few......
Bell & Howell (rebadged Apple II)
Commodore 64
Amiga 2000
Amiga 4000
Mac Intosh (1st model from early 80's)
TI99
several oddball custom-built machines
early 80's IBM (don't remember which model)
and the machine on my desk which sees regular use is a Gateway 2000 from '98 which is running Windows 98 SE.
They all work fine and I still play games on them occaisionally.
Does your B&H have that power strip attachment on the back of it or is it the model that didn't come with that?

I'd love to get an Amiga 2000 or 4000 with NewTek Video Toaster again, those were fun!
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Old 06-26-2011, 08:02 PM
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I have had so many over time. I buy them, play with them and sell them. Now I can't find much of anything to buy

I currently have a TRS-80 model 4 that was smashed in shipping. The case is fine but the crt broke in shipping and flopped around and smashed most of the boards inside...

I also have a TRS-80 Color Computer that will go to ebay eventually.

Some highlights of Vintage Computers I have had-
Commodore 64 (tons of c64 accessories too)
Commodore Vic-20
Commodore SX-64 (wish I kept this one, very cool)
Commodore Colt
Commodore Amiga A500
Magnavox Odyssey
Nintendo Famicom Family Basic Computer
TRS-80 Color Computer 1
TRS-80 Color Computer 2
TRS-80 Color Computer 3 (tons of CoCo accessories too)
TRS-80 MC-10
TRS-80 Model 1
TRS-80 Model 100
TRS-80 Model 4 (tons of model 3/4 accessories too)
TRS-80 DT-1 Data Terminal
TRS-80 PC-2 Pocket Computer
Tandy 1000 (several varieties, SX, TX, HX)
Atari 1040ST
Atari 800XL
Atari 1200XL (tons of XL accessories too)
Atari 130SE
Amstrad 1512DD
Apple IIc
Texas Instruments TI-99

Those are just the ones I can think of, off the top of my head. I have sold all of these, and I probably still have pictures of them if you guys wanna see 'em. I used to find this stuff local all the time. Not so much anymore...
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Old 06-27-2011, 08:06 AM
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Hi !

I have a IMSAI 8080 with a Z-80 cpu card, and video terminal. 4k static ram, 2Mhz processor, 8K EPROM Burner card, 50lb power transformer!
Commodore 64 HS-MON cartridge (assembler programing) Original box.
Mac SE, SE-2, LC-2, 7600/200 I still use to do websites and graphics print work, Performa 6200/cd (All around "worst comuputer apple ever made"), a slew of windoze boxes Win95 on up.

I got the LC-2 NEW paid over $3,000. I think it has a 10Mhz 6810, 8meg ram, and I paid extra for the larger 100MB HD, and a Sony screen. System 7.1 graphical user interface. and a HP DeskWriter C first color printer inkjet, and they still sell ink for it too. At the time my windoze choice was a 286? and DOS 3.1 - 3.6? around that time period. Yah I still got it. Funny except for the screen, the LC-2 was a pizza box computer, almost like my newer flat screen white plastic imac 17" lcd 2.0ghz G-5. The computer I use the most though, is my Win 98 ASUS p2b something 600mhz. Also for websites and graphics. I still have all of these. And all the early apples SE's have small 40MB HD's and the inside of the cabinets have the signatures of the people who worked on them, Pretty cool!
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Old 06-29-2011, 08:17 PM
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Got an iMac G3 in ruby. Nice old machine. It doesn't really like the internet.
At one time I liked vintage computing but nowadays I like the newest and best. :-(
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Old 08-09-2011, 05:26 AM
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I had an old IBM 5150 machine 2 months ago before I threw it out. Had a black and green zenith monitor with it. It needed a new HDD and I just had nothing to use it for beside taking up room I don't have. But currently have one of the first colored iMacs,(purple), an authentic Hotwheels computer, (needs some peripherals since origs. got wore out.) 3 other mid '90's machines, and a 2003 gateway which still works.

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Old 08-10-2011, 09:55 PM
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1999 G3 iMac... Bought it new and was frustrated by how fast it became obsolete after OS X came out. Sits in storage closet unloved. Replaced it in 2003 with sony vaio desktop which i use to today.

used a 1991 powerbook 140 for internet and email till 2001 on business travel... Still fire it up sometimes
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Old 08-19-2011, 03:53 PM
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I didn't get a computer until 1995 when Microsoft introduced Windows 95. That's about the time my dad starting using a personal computer for his work as well. Only the big banking companies on Wall Street and those massive c-corporations provided personal computers to their employees in the late-1970's to early-1980's. Computers weren't commonly found in the typical workplace until the mid- to late-1980's. Like I said before, my dad used electric typewriters at his jobs until the mid-1990's.
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Old 08-23-2011, 01:39 AM
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I have an full-up Imsai 8080 with a Soroc video teletype teminal, wide carriage daisy-wheel teletype terminal, and all kinds of other stuff.

I also have a Dec PDP 1103 & a Heath Z89 computer...all kinds of vintage computing stuff.

Enjoy,
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