Old computer collections!

[Akira]

Ok, I can't explain how happy I am. I wanted an A1200 for, like, 6 years~!!!! or more!!!

It's a great beast, and in absolutely mint condition! Now I am trying to set it all up from scratch, the previous owner installed that Directory Opus WB replacement crap, and I want all my tools back....

Here is a pic, with all the shit that came (couple hundreds of disks, Roclite external disk drive, manuals, lots of stuff..)... oh the box on the right contains a Texas TI99/4A taht I nabbed yesterday too... a lucky day!

[RetroMan]

congrats

[Akira]

If I dont show up around for a while, it's because I'm glued to the beast

BTW I just cant make this fricking VGA adapter work... grrrr... I hate thsi monitor...

[Miggy2TheMax]

Took me a _long_ while to get a 1200 too.. have fun !! .. its a great machine ..

[Overdoc]

Yes, too me also 10 years to get an A-1200 after I got my first A-500 in '90
But now I got 2 working A-1200
Bought the first one on a fleamarket for around 50 $, but it seems it has a problem with the LISA chip ( everything seems to work but the screen stays black )
Then I bought a A-1200 in parts, but without Roms. ( rather cheap - less than 20 $ ). The took the roms from the non-working one and put it into the new one and jippie-yeah - my first A-1200 !!! )
Just 2 weeks ago I bought another A-1200 at the fleamarket for 20 $ ( couldn't resist at this price despite my wife almost killed me for buying yet another machine I don't need ). Luckily this A-1200 works

Only sad thing is I haven't really had enough time lately to enjoy the A-1200 and learn about it...

[Chuckles]

You folks are tempting me to start cruising E-Bay in hopes of acquiring an A1200, and thus endangering my life when Spousal Unit Gamma discovers what I've done. I tend to collect old machines, but never had an A1200. My first Amiga was an A500, and I later managed to acquire the true classic in my collection, an A1000.

[Akira]

It's a mighty fine beast, chuckles. you'd love it.

Which other old machines you got?

[Chuckles]

Well, I still have my first computer, an Apple II+, an Apple IIe, an Atari 800XL, and Atari 130XE, the A1000, the A500, an old 486DX-66, and my current main machine, a PIII-500 that I built myself. I finally discarded an older non-functional PC XT, along with a few 386 boxes that were given to me.

The biggest problem I have is not having enough room to set them all up. I've managed to make room to hook up the A500 and the Apple IIe along with my PIII, but that's all the space I can spare.

[RetroMan]

How small is your room then ??? And I ever though I have space trouble with my 30+ old consoles and computers and stuff

[Chuckles]

It's a smallish bedroom (probably about 12 feet by 15 feet), which is pretty much dominated by one large 3 sided desk and a few bookcases. By the time you set up the computers on the various sides of the desk, and then add in printers, scanners and such, it's pretty crowded. Did manage to squeeze in a spot for my old SNES, but haven't even bothered to hook it up.

30+ older beasties? I'd be curious to hear what that collection includes. Must be fun to fiddle with.

[RetroMan]

Here´s a short list, I will make a better one when I got some more time

- A500+ with 2 MB Chip, 8 MB Fast, AlfaPower HD 460MB
- 3 x A2000 (one with 040, Graka and so on)
- 2 x A600 (one in a Desktop Case )
- 2 x A1200 (one with 030/50Mhz, 10 GB HD, NIC, 40x CD, 64 MB Ram)
- CDTV
- 2 x C64 (one old model I)
- 2 x C128D
- Philips VG-8010 (MSX1)
- Philips VG-8235 (MSX2)
- Sony HitBit 75P (MSX1)
- Sony HB-F700D (MSX2)
- C16/Plus4
- 2 x Amstrad CPC 464
- Mac II si
- Mac Performa 475
- Mac Powerbook 5300cs
- 286
- 386
- 486
- Amstrad Euro PC II
- Atari 1040 STE
- Atari 1040 STF
- Atari 520+
- 3 x Sega MegaDrive
- 2 x MegaCD II
- CD-i
- NES
- SNES
- PSX
- PS2
- N64
- Dreamcast
- Sega Master System
- 2 x GameBoy
- GameBoy Advance
- Collecovision
- 3 x Atari VCS 2600
- NeoGeo
- 2 x GLK-2003 COMPUTER (Pirated NES Clone )

UPDATED 12/02/2003

[Chuckles]

I'm trying to imagine all of that hardware all hooked up in one room, each connected to it's own tv or monitor, and all of them being switched on simultaneously. All of the lights in the valley below dim as the power grid tries to cope with the sudden demand. And in the center of the room, all present find themselves rendered permanently sterile due to the massive bombardment of electromagnetic radiation.

Just an idle musing ...

[Akira]

Ah, a german C128D!!! What a mighty fine C= machine! My favourite is the plastic box model, which one is yours?

My list follows:
Computers (and some accessories)
---------------------------------
- Commodore 128 (US early model)
- Commodore 128 (German)
- Commodore 64 (US breadbin)
- Drean Commodore 64
- Commodore Plus/4 (US)
- Commodore SX-64 (US)
- Commodore Amiga 600HD (2MB Chip, 30MB HD, German PAL)
- Commodore Amiga 1200 (34MB RAM, 030@50, 1GB HD, US NTSC)
- Apple Power Macintosh 8100/80
- Apple Macintosh Classic II
- Apple Macintosh IIsi
- Apple IIc
- Apple IIGS
- Talent DPC-200 (MSX1)
- Sony HitBit HB-201P (MSX1)
- Panasonic FS-A1FM (MSX2)
- Texas Instruments TI99/4A (white model)
- Texas Instruments TI99/4A (silver early model)
- Amstrad CPC 6128
- Sinclair 128K Spectrum +3
- IBM 5140 Convertible PC
CGA Monitor for the above (dunno the model)
dot matrix/thermal printer for the above
video extension module for the above
(I'm just missing the Centronics/RS232 expansion module)

Consoles
---------------------------------
- Sega Genesis (Mk1)
- Sega Genesis Nomad
- Sega Game Gear
- Sega Saturn
- Sony Playstation
- Mattel Intellivision (speech module and lots of games!)
- Atari 2600 (black&4sw)
- Atari Lynx II
- Nintendo Virtual Boy
- Nintendo SuperNES
- Nintendo Gameboy
- Nintendo Gameboy Advance
- Bandai Wonderswan Color
- SNK NeoGeo Pocket
- NEC TurboExpress


I wish I could have it all connected at once chuckles !

[updated 2002.7.1]

[Puzzle]

Since we're talking about computer-collections, I thought I'd add in some info on my stuff as well. So here goes:

I have...

• A C128.
• An Amiga 1200, which currently resides on a desk, without any case. It's got a Blizzard 1230-II and 32MB's of Fast-RAM.
• A VIC-20. I have some carts for it, like Adventure, Jupiter Lander, The Sky is Falling, and Avenger.
• Tiki 100. This is a Norwegian CP/M-based computer, with 64KB's of RAM, a DD floppydrive (5 1/4"), and an AY-soundchip (similar to the one used in the ZX Spectrum and Amstrad CPC).

OK, my collection is not as large as yours. But it's still quite good. So there.

[Akira]

Hey, that Tiki thing with an AY soundchip sounds interesting... any pics or info would be apreciated!

[Chuckles]

Originally posted by Akira
- Atari Lynx

Dang, I forgot to mention that I have one of these too - not the newer one that was somewhat smaller, but the one they originally released. It's too bad these never took off, as it beat the hell out of the Gameboy. No surprise though, given that the folks that developed it included a few folks from the Amiga's early development team.

[Overdoc]

I'm too lazy now to count all my machines, but there are several C64s, 1541, C128, 1571, tons of A-500 ( some plus ) and 3 A-1200 and a PET 2001
Not everything is working, tough...

@Akira:

That brown breadbox C64 with white keys is from Germany, right ?
It is also called 'Aldi C64' because it was (only ? ) sold by a German supermarket called 'Aldi'.
Rumours say that Commodore put together these C64s from spareparts they had. The Aldi C64 was one of the latest C64 models which were produced ( maybe the C64-G was later ? Or this C64 cartridge only gamestation ? )
However, I have also heard that some Aldi C64 don't have the 9V to the userport connected. So some hardware expansions like e.g. epromburners won't work there.

You have a SEGA Nomad! It must be a great machine, but it's quite rare right? Too bad sega couldn't win the battle against nintendo's shitty gamegayboy.

[Akira]

Originally posted by Overdoc
That brown breadbox C64 with white keys is from Germany, right ?
It is also called 'Aldi C64' because it was (only ? ) sold by a German supermarket called 'Aldi'.

Nope it isn't, thats why it iis so rare This is one of the argentinian C64 computers, made by Drean (Drean Commodore)... and it looks like an Aldi but it really isnt.. doesnt even have a BN/E mobo.. will post pics later... they also made C64s, C64Cs (none with a new mobo, all with the old mobo and SID), and C128s (these are VERY very rare...)... Besides they are all NTSC/PAl hybrids (PAL-N crystal with NTSC VIC, it's a MESS!)

Burseg, the Nomads aint that rare, I nabbed mine from a pawnshop in the US for 30 bucks... you shoudl search ebay... Its a nice machine

[Akira]

Here, pic 1 of the Drean Commodore breadbin

[Akira]

And here's pic two. Check out the mobo

[Puzzle]

Originally posted by Akira
Hey, that Tiki thing with an AY soundchip sounds interesting... any pics or info would be apreciated!

Here's some info ...

It was designed by a company called Tiki Data in Norway. It got an approval from the Department of Education, so it was common in schools, during the late 80's and early 90's,

It runs a CP/M-clone called KP/M.

It uses a Z80, running at 4MHz. It has 64KB's of RAM.
The graphics-chip was custom-designed by Tiki Data, and could do 256*256 in 16 colours, 512*256 in 4 colours, and 1024*256, in monochrome

There were several revisions of the machine, but there were few changes between them.

Around 1988-1989 it was clear that IBM-compatibles would take over the world, so schools started buying those machines instead (however, the Tiki's remained in use up until 1995-1996).

Most of the software availible for it was mostly "school-software". But there were also word-processors, database-applications, spreadsheets, etc. availible for it.

You could use just about all CP/M-applications, including CP/M itself, as long as it didn't use any special features (such as sound and graphics). (That's why most programs written for the Tiki won't run on any other CP/M-machine).

[Akira]

Puzzle, that's GREAT info, much appreciated!!! Another day, anotehr new computer you learn of ))

If you EVER see one of those around, let me know, I want one!

[Jherek Carnelia]

I thought I was the only one interested in these old computers! My wife thinks that I am the saddest person in town. Now I know different!
Off the top of my head here is the contents of my loft:
- 2x ZX81 (boxed, working all manuals leads etc)
- 4X ZX Spectrums (working, all manuals leads etc) 2 boxed
- 2x ZX Spectrum+1 (1 working, all manuals leads etc)
- 1x ZX Spectrum+2 (1 working, boxed, all manuals leads etc)
- 1x ZX Spectrum+3 (Amstrad - dodgy disk drive, all manuals leads etc)
- 2x microdrives for speccy
- 2x Dragon 32 (boxed - working, all manuals leads etc)
- 3x Commodore 64 (boxed, 1 bullnose type, all manuals leads etc)
- 1x MSX (no leads, PSU or anything)
- 1x Oric (no leads, PSU or anything)
- 3x Acorn Electron (2 boxed, all leads, manuals Acorn cassete players etc) - my very first computer, a complete suprise Christmas prezzy from my wife (bless her!) and the machine that got me hooked! (little did she know what a Trojan Horse that was!)
- 2x BBC B (2 disk drives, manuals, leads etc)
- 2x A1200 HD basic machines - no accelerators - bah!
- 3x A600 (1 HD)
- 2x A500 (RAM expansions to 1M and 1.5 Meg)
+ loads of PSU's, leads, manuals and other bits like cassette players and other Car Boot junk Ive collected.

And now we've moved they are gathering dust in the loft instead of in my play room like they used to be!
Oh happy days!!

[Akira]

That's one fine collection Jherek See, you are not the ONLY freak in the world! show this thread to your missus !

Anybody else has this hobby? Post your list here!

[TikTok]

Only a baby collection for me:

A1200
A600
CPC646 (and green monitor )

I would have more but I really can't justify spending any money at all at the moment. The other day I had to pass up on another free CPC646 and 200 games because the owner's house was miles away and I have no transport Still, I have very possible sources for an Atari 800 and a ZX Spectrum 48K in the near future. Everyone has to start somewhere .

[Akira]

indeed, tiktok.... mine started with my very own c128 and a600, it grew from there, i think starting with a sega saturn and an atari 2600

[Pyromania]

- A4000T 060/PPC, Toaster 4000, Phonepak, PCI, GVP I/O etc.
- A3000
- A600
- A1200
- 2x A1000's
- CD32
- CDTV
- 2x SGI O2's
- Sun Ultrasparc Workstation
- SX-64
- Atari Lynx
- PowerMac 5400
- Apple Newton 130
- Apple Newton 2100
- Psion PDA
- HP Jornada color PDA
- AMD 1.2 Ghz PC w/Linux Mandrake & Windows XP
- PIII 400 Mhz w/ Win98/SE
- Playstation
- Dreamcast

zx81 (doesn't work - hasn't got the cassette player lead)

The phillips videopac (G7000) - my mum bought this in about '89 because the man at the car boot sale said it would be easy to get games for...

Binatone tv master - Pong, about 10 times. (although "basketball pong" kept me and my sister busy for hours)

Dragon 32 (first machine I ever programmed - taught me what the colour "buff" was. Strangest colour pallette: green, yellow and lots of browns if I remember right. And dark blue. None of that good old "cyan" and "magenta" of the speccy)

zx spectrum 48K (count it). Took about 20 minutes to load a game, which was like listening to a modem connecting. Then it would crash. I spent hours typing in programs in basic from magazines - but there was always a misprint and I'd get a syntax error. There was also the weird combination of keys you'd have to press to get the right command (each key had about 5 different things it could be).

Sega Master System (the "newer" one - although there might have been more than two versions)

Sega Megadrive (the "older" one - although again, there might have been more than two versions) - had quite a lot of fun with this.

...and then all the recent stuff

Amiga 500 (with 512K expansion = 1 Meg, woohoo! Happy days are here! And a battery backed up clock!)

Amiga 600 (getting there...)

Amiga 1200 (with extra stuff like 030 expansion, 8 meg fast ram, scsi adapter, etc.) I got this just about the time the amiga was "officially dead" (for about the third time). Did lots of programming in AMOS pro on this (Still waiting for Amiga Format to send me my fifty pound for my "readers game". It's probably in the post.)

Then I got some PCs, from p90 to p200 to p400, which hold no nostalgic value for me whatsoever.

[Akira]

Renamed so it makes more sense... 6581, post yer collection man!

Thanks to this GREAT board a year ago I started my collection with an A600:

- A600 with 2 megs chip ram and a 350 megs hardrive
- CPC6128 with a 3.5" drive
- MSX2 - NMS 8245 with a Philips VS 0080 monitor (fantastic monitor)
- SNES
- Megadrive I and II
- SegaCD and MegaCD II
- A Multi Game Hunter (backup station) for the SNES and Megadrive.

And very soon an A1200 with a Blizzard IV

[Akira]

hah! It's contagious, Uukrul! I'm glad you got bitten by the bug

A game hunter, sweet! Does it work fine? How many megabits does it have?

[MOS-6581]

Ok Akira you asked for it...

Amstrad

4x CPC 464
3x CPC 6128
2x Colour monitors
1x Green screen monitor

Acorn

2x BBC Master Model B with disc drive (both broken!!! grrr)

Atari
1x 64XE (Dodgy keyboard)
1x 520STM (No power supply)
3x 520STFM (1 has internal 512K upgrade to 1MB ram)
2x 520STE (1 of them has been upgraded to 1MB)
1x 1040STE (Upg. to 4MB)
1x Colour monitor
1x Monochrome

Commodore (8-bit)
6x C64
(My best C64 is boxed, in abosolute mint condition! It is one of the first batch of C64's made from 1982, with a R1 ceramic VIC-II chip! 2 dead C64s, chips desoldered and used to fix another with a dodgy PLA chip.)

3x C64C (Including my first C64 bought for my 11th birthday in 1990, plus another in abosolute mint condition , manufactured in 1991 My orginal C64 is still in use, with it's own 486DX/2 66MHz/540MB HDD PC running HDD64)

1x Commodore Plus/4 (Purchased two sundays ago!)

Commodore (16/32 Bit)

5xA500 (all but 1 has been upgraded to 1MB)
3xA500Plus (1 has a 1mb upg to 2MB.)
2xA600 (Main A600 has 2MB RAM and 20Mb drive, the other unexpanded)
4xA1200 (Including my original A1200 from 1993, (Race and Chase pack) still boxed in abosolute mint condition, box looks factory new!) A1200's has 40 to 540MB drives.

1xEscom A1200
1x Amiga CD32 with SX-1 Expansion with 4MB Fast RAM plus A2000 Keyboard. (I got this for free at a boot fair would you believe! However the power supply was broken, so I had to mod a A500 P/S for it. Also got another A500Plus on the same day.)

1x 1084D Colour monitor
1x 1084DS Colour monitor

Sinclair

3x 48k ZX Spectrum (1 Boxed, 1 Broken)
3x 48K ZX Spectrum+ (1 with bad keyboard, 1 Boxed)
2x 128K Spectrum (Who says they are rare!!!)
1x 128K Spectrum +2 (My 4th 8-bit computer which replaced my broken +2)
1x 128K Spectrum +2A
1x 128K Spectrum +3

Various

Sam Coupe with 512k with Printer interface, and 80 disks

Consoles
Master system, 2x Mega drive (1Boxed), 3x NES (2Boxed), SNES, Playstation (boxed), Gameboy, Atari Lynx (boxed).

Also various PC's 486/Pentium MMX/Pentium II

Whew! I got to start slimming down the collection after going through all that!

[MOS-6581]

Hey Akira, great photo's of the "Drean C64". I've never seen one like that before! If you got a digicam I would love to see more pics! (especially the case badge) I was thing of spraying a breadbin C64 (it is horribly yellowed (the commodore cruse!)) a nice shade of blue! Go great with a white keyboard!

Originally posted by Akira
A game hunter, sweet! Does it work fine? How many megabits does it have?

Yes, works fine It has 16 megabits, so 90 % of Megadrive games and around 75 % of SNES games work with it. I got it plus a Snes, a Megadrive II + MegaCD II and a lot of originals for 90 $

The SNES with an RGB cable and the 50/60 Hz switch is an awesome game platform

[Akira]

Good one, Uukrul! Id die to get a Superwildcard 2DX, though

6581: you ask for it, you got it! As far as I know, these Dreans are former returned US NTSC machines, refurbished and sold as new in this sub-standard third-world country I live in :P The VIC is NTSC, but the clock is PAL, so SIDs sound at PAL speed, but with the pitch of NTSC machines! some strange crap

Originally posted by Akira
Good one, Uukrul! Id die to get a Superwildcard 2DX, though

If you have the money that's easy:
http://www.lik-sang.com/catalog/prod...448&PID=810730

Now that 1 Euro = 0.99 $ is the moment for buying, but I don't have the money

[Akira]

Hey MOS6581! (can I call you SID? shorter and easier )

Nice collection, I didn't read it when I posted teh otehr message! I see you are a Commodore-aholic, much like Overdoc

I like this bit:

My orginal C64 is still in use, with it's own 486DX/2 66MHz/540MB HDD PC running HDD64

Put that PC slave to work, I say! . The PC treated as a C64 peripheral, sweet I've got to try the 64HDD thing myself, a friend of mine will make the XE1541 cable for me, then I'll be set . I also want to make the PC64 cable, so I can use SIDPlay/w with it!

All I have left is a question: where do you stick all this stuff? There is a thread to show pics of your collection or "game room", I'd like to see your "junk"


Uukrul: right now, money is a terrible problem for me :/


Vivash: You say:

zx81 (doesn't work - hasn't got the cassette player lead)

You mean it "doesn't work" just because you don't have that lead? It's a normal miniplug cable man! I know I used a miniplu-miniplug cable to connect it to my stereo and load a cassette from it!

[CPC464]

Well comapred to the others my list of computers is small but (NOT INCLUDING PC's) I have:

1 X Sega megadrive
1 X Nintendo
1 X SNES
1 X ZX80
1 X ZX81
1 X Spectrum 128
1 X Amstrad CPC464 (loads of Original Boxed games too)
1 X Acorn Electron
1 X Commodore 64
1 X Atari ST
1 X Amiga 500
1 X Amiga 500+
1 X Amiga 600
1 X Amiga 1200
1 X Intellivision (Cool games Console)

[MOS-6581]

Originally posted by Akira
Hey MOS6581! (can I call you SID? shorter and easier )

Sure no problem!

Nice collection, I didn't read it when I posted teh otehr message! I see you are a Commodore-aholic, much like Overdoc

I'm a Commodore-obessive more like!

All I have left is a question: where do you stick all this stuff? There is a thread to show pics of your collection or "game room", I'd like to see your "junk"

I ask myself the same question...! After I do some tidying up I'll post some pics of the machines I've got. The SAM coupe will probably be of most interest to people, so I'll try and get some pics of it uploaded.