Vintage computer collecting

[autowasherfreak]

I like to use my Apple IIe's and my typewriters because there are not interruptions from e-mail and so forth.

 

[mpatoray]

I am going to try and work on some more of my vintage computers, I am going to try and get my Macintosh Quadra 950 running using A/UX 3.1 I will post pictures this weekend.

 

[j2400]

This thread inspired me to dig out my old Apple IIc Plus. I got it out of sentiment--Apple II series were among the first computers I ever used. This IIc Plus appears to work, although I haven't really done anything with it. One of these days....

The picture shows the computer, and an external 5 1/4" disk drive. A 5 1/4" data disk I used many, many years ago on an Apple IIe is pictured, too. The yellow thing is a protection sheet that was put into the internal floppy drive during transit. I remember hearing about those, but never saw one until this IIc Plus.

 

[mpatoray]

A Youtube video I posted of my Apple IIgs running "Music Studio 2.0" by Activision. The IIgs has 1.25 MB ram, and the program was ran off of the 2 800k 3.5" floppy drives.

The video was captured out of the composite output on the IIgs, and the audio was from the Headphone out(which is why it is a little noisy)

 

[roto204]

Wow

That Xerox system is cool. I scored an IBM MagCard/A system from a local library, but without any MagCards, was at a loss for what it could/should do. A massive, inch-and-a-quarter thick bundled cable connected what looked like a normal Selectric III to the unit--did it do something similar to the Xerox system?

 

[roto204]

Pic

Grainy, but here it is from another site:

 

[sudsmaster]

Still have my first computer - a Leading Edge Model M. With dot matrix printer, and CGA color monitor, it set me back $3000 in 1984... but it was instrumental in leading me to a new career in the IT world... which lasted about 15 years.

Some time later I started building my own systems, starting with 386 motherboards and then up to the most recent, a Pentium 4 machine with Nvidia graphics card. Have a Pentium Dual Core motherboard, processor, and chassis waiting for me to build it up as well, but am in no big hurry.

I built a lot of Novell file servers, and still have all of the ones I created for my home lab, as well as a Linux system that was fun for a while until it decided it would no longer talk to my monitor ;-).

 

[autowasherfreak]

I have a couple of IIc clones, but no monitors for them with the built in 5 1/4" floppy drive.

Every once and a while you can find IBM Mag Cards on eBay. The typewriter units for the Mag Card were Selectric II's the III's came out in the early 80's.

A friend of mine from one the typewriter groups has a IBM MC/ST but the card unit doesn't work. I would really like to get my hands on a IBM MC Composer.

 

[twintubdexter]

you gotta be an old coot to remember this

The company I worked for briefly in the early 1980's had a small computer store on Maiden Lane in San Francisco that I managed for awhile. They carried the entire Hewlett Packard line of calculators. This was pretty much HP's entry in PC market, the HP-85. It used these little data tapes and had a built-in thermal printer. Only the wealthy could afford one, the price was over $3,000. You see one pop up for sale now and then.

I moved to Cupertino (sort of a San Jose suburb) and remember several of my friends, fairly unskilled people with high school educations, working at HP in assembly making 3 times as much money as me and getting 10 times the benefits along with HP stock options...grrrrrrrrrr.

 

[swestoyz]

Nate - holly crap I haven't seen one of those in 20 years. Mom picked up one of those for free somewhere. I was always amazed by the sheer size and mass of the card reader. It's only use in the house was to type - we didn't have any cards to go with it.

Unfortunately the IBM was thrown out many many years ago. A shame too. It was a non correcting black Selectric II with a similar card reader.

Ben

 

[mpatoray]

HP 85 very cool, I have an HP 9825b, does anyone have ant of the Mini Data cartridges that go with it? i don't trust ePay.

 

[jasonl]

Way back in 1984

13 years old and my brand spanking new Commodore 64 system.

And believe it or not, I STILL have the little TV that's right behind me. It was stored in the attic in the house so Katrina didn't get to it.

 

[mpatoray]

Got my Mac Quadra 950 online today. It has 40 MB ram, 500 MB hard drive, SuperMac 24 bit accelerated video card, Running Mac OS 8.0, 19" RasterOps Trinitron monitor.

 

[mpatoray]

Here it is running a Fractal program

 

[fonografmaniac]

Jasonl, is that TV an RCA? I remember one of my mom's ex's had one like that.