Vintage computer collecting

[mpatoray]

I was wondering if anyone else her collects vintage computers?

I just got my Apple IIgs system back on line, and my Commodore 128. Planing to get a few more on ASAP.

 

[mpatoray]

Heres the second system i got running My Apple IIgs

 

[mpatoray]

And the result of the work, the IIgs working.

 

[supremewhirlpol]

You don't happen to have any color ribbons for the Imagewriter II do you?

I have Apple IIe, Mac G3 all-in-one Beige, Mac classic color, LC 575, PowerBook G3 lombard, PwoerBook 520, one Imagewriter II, Mac G4, PowerBook Duo with dockststion. I have Sun Ultra Enterprise 3000, Ultra Enterprise 2(2), and Ultra 5. An old Silicon Graphics machine. I have a few SCSI CD-ROMS if you need them.

 

[whitekingd]

I don't collect, but I have an old Leading Edge Phoenix "8088" sysstem. Still works, too!

 

[jaxsunst]

I would like to collect vintage Mac's but alas, no room.

 

[frigilux]

Here's one for you to collect! This is what they thought a "home computer in the year 2004" would look like back in the early 1950s.

 

[alanlendaro]

I Have an IBM MT/ST and a Xerox 800 typewriter if anyone is

The MT/ST (Magnetic Tape Selectric Typewriter) was IBM's first word processing typewriter and introduced in 1966 (I think). The Xerox 800 was Xerox's first such machine and was introduced in the early 70's.

Would love to have both find a good home.

PS that photo from above is a spoof (check snopes link attached).

Is This How a Home Computer Was Imagined in 1954?

Does a photograph shows RAND Corporation's 1954 design for a home computer?

www.snopes.com

 

[jasonl]

The c64 is gone

But thank God for emulators!

 

[oldappliancenut]

I have

a few atari computers and the commodore amiga

 

[swestoyz]

Oh God I haven't seen a Commodore 128 (Apple IIe clone) in over 15 years! That was my first real computer. At the time I had barrowed it from a buddy who had recently upgraded to a 486. Shortly after I bought an Apple IIc+, then an Apple IIGS. Your GS looks pretty souped up - what's inside? Notice you've got a HD20 and a CD-ROM. I haven't seen that CD-ROM in years either!

Nice stuff!

If you haven't checked it out, you should spend sometime at cadman's site. He and I have been collecting computers since we were in Jr. High. Some pretty cool stuff in there. If he happens to spot this thread, hopefully he'll be able to include a current state update ;-)

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[jasonl]

Back in the day I had an Amiga 2000 with 1 meg ram and 40mb hard drive (OOOOOOOOOH!)

 

[dirtybuck]

Packard Bell

This was back in 1992. If I remember correctly, it had a 16 mhz processor (don't remember who made it) and 2 whopping megs of RAM. I can't remember what size the hard drive was. It was a "special package" from Montgomery Ward. It came with CPU, 15 in. color monitor and Epson dot-matrix printer, that was a "tractor feed".

A friend of mine helped me get it by putting it on his Ward's charge card, and I paid the bill on it every month.

 

[autowasherfreak]

LOVE EM

I have an Apple IIE, IIE Platinum, Apple IIGS, IBM PS/2 Model 60, and a IBM PCjr. All work except for the IBM Model 60 which needs a new hard drive.

"I Have an IBM MT/ST and a Xerox 800 typewriter if anyone is interested"

I would love to have them for my collection, but shipping on those beasts is expensive. Could you take some pictures of them for me. I've never seen the Xerox 800 before.

I love the older Apple computers. They were the first computers I ever used they were quite popular in schools during the 80. My first home computer was a Commodore Vic-20, then I had to have a C-64, and finall a C-128. When I had the C-128 I had two printers (a dot matrix and a daisy wheel) two 5 1/4" disk drives, and two 3 1/2" disk drives connected to. It was a great machine for the money at that time.

I have pictures of my Apples and IBM's on my Facebook page.

 

[mistereric]

Hey Matt! Lovely IIgs you have there. Mine is in storage.

Is yours accellerated? I have an old TWGS card in mine. I scored a Superdrive controller a while back. DO you have any CD software for your IIgs? I have the drive but no goodies to use it with.

 

[whirlcool]

We started out with an Apple //c system. Then we bought a Zenith Data Systems 8088 system and still have it in the garage. After that I started to build my own systems. I built an AT clone, then a 386-40Mhz(AMD) and several more systems along the way. We actually have most of those stashed away here somewhere.

I really like the way Apple manuals and instructional software was written. It was cutesy, but everyone could understand it. Apple ticked me off so I stopped buying their products.

When I bought my //c it didn't come with a ProDos manual. At our local Apple User Group meeting other people said that the same thing happened to them and they wrote Apple and the manual was sent to them. I wrote Apple and they told me that I had to pay $39.95 for the manual. I asked the people at the users group meeting if they had to pay for theirs. All said no, they were sent for free. And some people did say that they DID receive a ProDos manual in the box with the computer.

So I wrote to Apple again, and they told me in no uncertain terms that if I want this manual I was going to pay for it and they didn't care what others said. So I wrote one final letter to Apple telling them I was through with their products. Of course I didn't receive an answer.

Ugh! Those PS/2 Model 60's were horrible! NW had them all over the place in the late 80's early 90's as terminals. They were SO SLOW!

 

[jeffg]

The C64 emulators actually work as advertised, at least the one I use (CCS64) does.

LOAD "*",8,1,p LOL

The hard part is finding ROM files for these emulators, but Missile Command, Jeep Command and other C64/arcade classics run great on modern PC's.

Sometimes simpler is better!

CCS64 - A Commodore 64 Emulator - By Per Håkan Sundell

CCS64 - A Commodore 64 Emulator - By Per Håkan Sundell

www.ccs64.com

 

[danemodsandy]

Vintage Laptop Available, Free

Please read this all the way through before responding, thanks!

I have a vintage Everex Stepnote SC available; this was the latest and greatest laptop available in 1998. Specs are:

Pentium 133
1.4 G hard drive
32 MB RAM
3.5 floppy drive
CD-ROM (Read-only)
TFT display - I think 11"
PCMCIA slot (dual) and the usual assortment of ports

IT WORKS. There is occasionally a small video problem where the display jitters, but tapping the frame of the display stops it. It has ALL its manuals, ALL its OS and driver CDs and diskettes, and its power supply. It still has its original packaging. The Windows 95 CD is present, along with its manual and product key (serial number). It was a screaming laptop in its day, but that day is past, so it's now more a collectors' item. To get this jewel, you will need to:

Pick it up in Atlanta, or arrange with an AW.org member in Atlanta to pick it up for you. I am busy closing out a very large house that I have to be out of in two weeks and I don't have time to ship this baby. I'm sorry, I can't make an exception on this part of it; things are that tight right now. I also have an early Panasonic digital camera that I'm happy to throw in; it's also in primo condition and has all its packaging and documentation, etc. Again, this is FREE.

Please email me direct at [email protected] to lay claim to this jewel; it's so rare for a laptop to survive this intact this long that I'd like for it to find a good home with someone who appreciates what it was in its day.

Thanks!

 

[goatfarmer]

We also had a Commodore VIC 20. Just sold it a few tears ago.