Retro Computer Collection
Computers are my biggest interest (some would say obsession) and I have owned many different kinds over the years, in fact I still have most of them. It all started in 1981 when my dad bought a Sinclair ZX81 (I’d have been about 8 at the time), this was soon replaced with a Spectrum and then BBC Model B a year or so later (I still have it). Since then I seem to have accumulated a fair amount of computer junk, some are the machines I actually used when they were new and some were acquired later on. I never set out to start a collection, it just sort of happened!
Around 2004 I had to put the collecting on hold due to lack of space (and organisation if I’m honest).
If you are into classic computers you may be interested in the Classicmp Mailing List.
Acorn
BBC Model B: 6502 Second Processor, Watford Le Modem, 40 Track 5.25″ Floppy, Hegotron Robotics graphics tablet, lightpen, ROM expansion board, numerous ROM’s
OS: BBC BASIC
A4000: 2Mb RAM, 2Mb ROM, 80Mb HD, i-cubed EtherLan200 ethernet adapter
OS: RISCOS v3.0
Apple
Apple Macintosh SE FDHD: 4Mb RAM, 40Mb hard drive, Shiva Etherport SE Ethernet adapter
OS: System 7.0.1
Apple Macintosh Performa 475: 12Mb RAM, 500Mb hard drive, LC PDS Ethernet adapter
OS: Mac OS 8
Apple Macintosh Performa 630: 12Mb RAM, 500Mb hard drive, LC PDS Ethernet adapter
OS: Mac OS 8
Apple Macintosh Quadra 950: 148Mb RAM, 1.1Gb hard drive
OS: Mac OS 8.1, A/UX 3.1
Apple iMac DV: 400Mhz, 320Mb RAM, 10Gb hard drive
OS: Mac OS X 10.3
Commodore
Commodore Vic 20: Cassette Drive, TV Modulator, 8K Ram Cartridge
Commodore Amiga 500: 1Mb RAM, Vortex 40Mb hard drive, 2nd 3.5″ floppy, home built sound sampler
OS: Workbench 1.3.2
Digital/DEC
Digital MicroVAX II: BA23 enclosure, 9Mb RAM Board, DELQA Ethernet adapter
OS: NetBSD/vax 1.3.2
Digital VaxStation 3100/M30: 24Mb RAM, 540Mb & 2Gb HD’s
OS: NetBSD/vax 1.6
Hewlett Packard (HP)
Apollo 9000 – 715/100XC: 32Mb RAM, 2.1Gb hard drive, HyperCRX-24 Graphics Accelerator
OS: Debian PARISC GNU/Linux
Open University
Hektor III: 8085C Processor, 64K ROM, 64K RAM, Max resolution 640×240, 1200/75 Modem
Silicon Graphics (SGI)
Indy R4600/133: 64Mb RAM, 1Gb HD, 20″ remote control colour monitor, indycam
OS: Irix 5.3
Indy R4600/133: 64Mb RAM, 1Gb & 4.3Gb HD
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 3
Indy R4000/100: 64Mb RAM, 1Gb HD
OS: Irix 5.3
Indigo R4000/100: 64Mb RAM, 1Gb HD
OS: Irix 6.2
Indigo 2 R10000/195 Solid Impact: 128Mb RAM, 4.5Gb HD
OS: Irix 6.2
Sinclair
Sinclair ZX81: 16K ram pack
Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K: Housed in a DK Tronics MK2 keyboard, microdrive, interface 1, ZX printer and Currah speech synthesiser
Sinclair ZX Spectrum 48K: Housed in a DK Tronics MK1 keyboard
Sun
SPARCstation IPC (aka Sun 4/40): 24Mb RAM, 200Mb hard drive, cg3 framebuffer
OS: RedHat Linux 4.2 Kernel 2.0.35
JavaStation-1 (aka Mr Coffee): 32Mb RAM, 110MHz MicroSPARC II CPU
OS: Linux 2.4.2, NFS Root
Sun SPARCstation 20: 256Mb RAM, 75MHz SuperSPARC II CPU, 4.3Gb HD, TurboGX graphics, 17″ Sun Monitor, Type 5 keyboard & mouse
OS: Debian GNU/Linux 3.0 (Woody)
Other
NMW branded Z80 CP/M Machine & Terminal
PC Compatible
IBM PC Model 5150 (the original IBM PC): Twin 5.25″ floppy with IBM CGA monitor, Quadram memory card takes RAM to 384K
OS: MS DOS 3.2
IBM PC/XT Model 5160: 640k, 10Mb HDD, 5.25″ & 3.5″ floppy, IBM Mono monitor
OS: MS DOS 3.2
IBM PS/2 Model 30: 8086 CPU @ 8MHz, 640K, Single floppy, 20Mb HDD, MCGA Graphics, mono monitor
OS: MS DOS 6.22, Windows 3.0
Schneider EuroPC: All in one PC with 640K, Single floppy, CGA Graphics, Schneider MM12 Monitor
OS: MS DOS 3.2
Wyse Wy-1100-1: 8088 CPU, Twin 5.25″ floppy
OS: MS DOS 3.2
Compaq 286SLT Laptop: 640K Ram, 20Mb HDD, Built in 2400 baud modem, mono VGA
OS: MS DOS 6.22 & Windows 3.0 or Minix 2.0.0
Toshiba T3200SX 386 Portable PC: 1Mb Ram, 40Mb HDD, With 9600 baud modem, amber VGA gas plasma screen
OS: FreeDOS / MS DOS 6.22, Windows For Workgroups 3.11
Terminals
Digital VT320
Wyse WY-50 (x 2)
Wyse WY-60
Alcatel VT258 (Small portable terminal with built in 2400 baud modem)
Handhelds
Anita 851 LED caculator made by Sumlock Comptometer Ltd
Casio FX-702P Programmable Calculator & Casio Thermal Printer
Psion Organizer II LZ64: 8K, 2 x 64K,128K Datapaks, Mathpack, comms link, Psion Printer II, Datapak Formatter
Psion Series 3C 1Mb, 1Mb Flash SSD
Handspring Visor Deluxe, 8Mb, VisorPhone Springboard module
