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Cool Retro-Boxes on eBay
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Mac SE FD HD I know, but it is a nice one & having bought one recently to turn into a PC for my daughter, I was amazed by the quality of these things. NMW Server Oh, come-on! Never heard of it? What does that matter? Ti 99/4a Now this one's going for silly money... ...but imagine a brushed-steel A1200 with black CDTV keyboard. Hmmmm. SGI Indigo2 Ahhh, what a pervy boot-message... ...Do you notice the Lavender coloured case? This is a VERY special Indy2 - I'm not sure the owner even realises. I'll let you do a bit of Googling to find out why. And a fearsome amount of kit to go with it too! C= 128D Need I say more? Compaq Portable III Damn it! Pick up only... Such a cool, old-school portable. Plasma screen. Ooo, to put some modern guts in this sucker... ...or how about squashing an A4000 in there..? NeXT NeXT Station I'd sell my daughter to get my hands on one of these - sadly my wife won't let me... Oric-1 It's an Oric-1. You know, sooo much better than a Speccy, but possibly wins the prize for the most bugged-ROM ever found in a computer released to the public... ...that's ok though. This one has an Atmos ROM too. Oh, and I happen to have a spare brand-new Atmos case that Oric-1 guts will go right into if anyone wants to make me an offer. Tandy TRS-80 model 4 Utterly useless! But if we wanted useful computers why would we be members of a retro-computer BB..? Epsom? Epson HX-20 With all the goodies! Great keyboard, & still a very useful travelling word-processor. Some hacks in the press still swear by these things. Atari Mega 1 Atari? I spit on your Atari! I dangle my genitals in your general direction... ...still quite a cool retro box. Intertec Superbrain II QD 'Hey, I've got a Superbrain!' With one of these, for once, you wouldn't be lying... ...and the hours of hilarity you sould have: 'I've got a Superbrain' 'Yes, I've got a Superbrain II' Laugh? I nearly started. Last edited by Charlie; 25 July 2008 at 13:40. |
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BBC Master 128
This ones got a few rather nice goodies. What? You've never yearned to play the Master-Turbo version of Elite on the real thing with one of those lovely analogue sticks? Your sick man, sick. Sharp MZ-80A One of the platforms like the Research Machines M-Z80K that died a death in the UK when the Beeb came along... ...Har, har! Cobalt Qube 3 Now, unlike to Qube 2 which must be to world's coolest server, the Qube 3 is almost as cool & is actually useful! Mind you, this one's being sold by a highway robber! Never heard of a Qube? How dare you! Look @ the Avatar and weep! I'll resurrect that old thread - I'm warning you! Is this a fun thread? Feel free to make comments / additions. Maybe if one of the mods is as exited as me they'll make it sticky. Last edited by Charlie; 25 July 2008 at 13:37. |
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Clearly Awesome!!!! thats a trip down retr0-lane if ever there was one... I am quite Keen on the NeXT station, C= 128D, SGI Indigo2, Ti 99/4a and the uber cool (and colossal) NMW Server. the latter always reminds me of something from Buck Rogers.... mind you if it came with the female Col. Dearing in tight spandex... i may well have to buy it |
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A 128D will be mine one day, but not for 90 quid!
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Charlie, regarding the Epson HX-20 - I think you mean another common Epson, with more than 20 characters per line
And he didn't have 4 AA batteries to test it with? Fishy. |
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24 July 2008, 18:38 | #7 |
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A Retro-Babe for Zetr0: Ah, positive responses - I'm all a-glo! I'll look for some more fleaBay delights... |
25 July 2008, 11:11 | #8 |
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Mmmmmm Jumpsuit Wlima......
its the suit i would jump her in |
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Retrp computers and a pic of wilma , my morning is now complete
I`m all set up for the rest of the day now |
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Let me see pic of TRS 80 Model 4 or Gorgeous Wilma
Ah Yes Wilma ..... Love the outfit TC |
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Ooo, ooo - Some British Cool Acorn Electron: Plus1, Plus3 You don't see a bundle like this come up too often. £72.00 @ the time of writing - I expect it to go WAAAY higher than that before bidding is done... ...bets? I'll put 50p on £300.00! 'ACP Advanced Rom Mk 1 Adaptor containing Slogger T2P3 (Tape to Plus 3) convertor' - Now that's an important bit of kit of any seroius Electron fan. |
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This thread rates a 9.7% on my awesome thread scale.
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Got 1 of those but using the Better ACP 3/4 Disc interface Time to sell methinks TC |
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well you have shown possibly the best most fun computer i ever had and that was my very first comput my mum won in a raffle prize.
il tell you it was the texas instruments TI-99-4A , i spent years playing parsec the best game at the time vector 3d graphics and on a cart very interesting i loved that baby wish i never sold it,maybe i go buy another 1 , |
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Sharp MZ-80A
You see, the Japs (oo-sorry: The Japanese) did sell some micros in the UK. This wasn't a bad one - but yet another that lost out to the good-ol' Beeb. Another Oric1 Did I mention I have a brand-new Atmos case that an Oric1 mobo will go into if anyone is interested..? Thought so... C= PC1 What were C= playing at..? Included because crazy rubbish is now quite rare & it's sometimes nice to get your hands on physical evidence of a company's mistakes - just for: 'I wouldn't have done that if I wuz you' value. Sharp PC 1211 Didn't you just hate the boy @ school who had one of these? But didn't you really think: 'That's so cool, I wish I had one too - the b*stard!' Go on, admit it... Last edited by Charlie; 27 July 2008 at 01:42. |
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I learned to program C on a Commodore 386 monochrome 3 hour load time PC... ahhh.... such memories
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Hi Zetr0 Last edited by Charlie; 27 July 2008 at 01:48. Reason: Damn it! the lower-case d's strike again :( |
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Atari 800
IT'S AN ATARI 800 for GODS SAKE!!! ZX81 I HATED my ZX81 - such a SH1T computer. But looking back on all those frustrations: No memory, no GFX, no sound, ram pack wobble. Hours typing in crappy little progams only to spend the next few hours looking for the typing mistake(s) only to either: a) Discover it wasn't worth the effort (again). or b) The revenge of the ram pack wobble would strike! Somehow the memories seem to leave a rosy glow... Belated tip: Beat the ram pack wobble! Turn the little b*stard over and drip hot wax all over the connector - that won't be moving again! Dragon32 I had to think why the 'D' 32 should be included... ...then it struck me. Let's face it no-matter what machine you had you could always look down your nose at the Dragon owners and think 'At least I didn't buy one of them!' (Unless you owned a Mattel Aquarius - Har, Har!) Hell even the Tandy owning loonies could feel happy, safe in the knowledge that here was a person who owned a bad clone of their own bad computer... ...Still the Dragon owners have their revenge: Just about the best 8-bit OS ended up on their humble box. ZX Spectrum+ Now, I never found the old Speccy to be that cool. Didn't then, don't now. Maybe it's my being scarred by the ZX81, maybe it's the rubber keyboard that made you feel like you were poking a corpse's anus... (shudder) But the Speccy+ is a different matter: It's black, it didn't sell well (sympathy), and it didn't make me feel like I was being forced to take part in Clive Sinclair's perverted plot to make every young boy in the country find out what a dead anus felt like! ahem. Ooo, another Oric1 Did I mention I had a spare Atmos case..? Dead Anus AKA: Spectrum 48k Tandy CoCo Not a Dragon32, so cool-ish. Last edited by Charlie; 27 July 2008 at 02:30. |
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