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Retired objects
My computers seem to stay around forever. Here is my first color computer -- MacIntosh LC dating from about 1990, and my first PowerMac -- the 7100 from about 1994. Both have been retired for 25-30 years. I don't know why I hang on to them.
I didn't look at it carefully, but on top may be my first ever external hard disk. If it is, I paid roughly $1000 for 100 MB hard drive in 1990. At the time, that seemed like an enormous amount of storage compared to the 640 KB you could put on a floppy disk.
Since this photo was taken deep in our dark and dirty basement, I was inspired to finally dig out my speed light to provide lighting. Until today, every other photo that needed lighting was done with the ring light I bought when we were doing on-line instruction during last year's COVID lockdown.
Ordinateur MSX YAMAHA CX5MII / Unité de Synthèse du son FM (incorporée de type SFGII) : Générateur de son FM à 4 opérateurs et 8 algorithmes, 8 notes simultanées, 46 timbres préprogrammés, sorties audio gauche et droite, entrée et sortie MIDI, connecteur pour clavier musical (Fontionnel !)
Here is the Powerbook Duo 230, which was the only one of the three that we were able to power on to a working operating system.
It's been around 1 year since Steve Jobs died. Last year, I created this sketch as a memorial. I still have great memories of Mr. Jobs and my old computer. I loved my old Power Mac G4 computer and I had it for almost 10 years.
Macintosh IIsi (M0360) with Macintosh Color Display (M1212), AppleDesign Keyboard (M2980) and MacAlly mouse.
Some years back I met someone with a pile of IIc's in his shed, which he passed on for me to look after. I still hope to do something in order to display them properly one day. Interestingly, one of them had the LCD display shown here - they're quite unusual, as they were truly awful at the time, so comparatively few were sold.
I'm very fond of the IIc - it see it as one of the three computers which seem to best exemplify Steve Job's particular vision, for good or ill.
Rowan's description: "Ah, it's an early-on turbo model, 90s, a 286 I think. IBM compatible"
Later (he's taken it to bits): it's a 386SX actually
The Oric Handbook by Peter Lupton and Frazer Robinson. Published by Century Communications in 1983, this is one of those books that aims to provide an alternative to the official manual.
this is one of a series of portraits I was hired to to for a software company. All of the portraits are of employees that have been chosen to represent the company in an ad campaign that will appear in the Behavioral Healthcare Magazine. I was hired to do the portraits and design and write the copy.
The Osborne Vixen was conceived as the replacement for the popular Osborne 01 portable computer, which was released three years earlier in 1981.
Originally, the Vixen consisted of a light-weight black plastic case, with two horizontally-mounted 400K floppy drives, and a 5-inch green CRT. The keyboard is permanently attached, and folds down to act as a stand to support and raise the front of the system.
A vast improvement over the Osborne 01, the Vixen 4 is smaller, lighter, and has higher-capacity floppy drives.
The small 5-inch (diagonal) CRT screen displays 24 lines of 80 characters each. Fortunately, it is very sharp and crisp, as the tiny 1mm-wide characters would be unreadable on a lesser monitor.
Unfortunately, in September of 1983, the Osborne Computer Company (OCC) ran into financial difficulties, declared bankruptcy, and the Vixen in its original incarnation was never publicly released.
It's not certain how a few of these never-released Vixens escaped into the wild.
As luck would have it, the Osborne Computer Company survived bankruptcy and in 1985 returned to viability, to officially release the Vixen into the public. This re-designed system has the drives mounted vertically to allow the use of a larger, 7-inch amber display. Other changes include an off-white case instead of black
Technical data:
Floppy drive specifications: 400K, DSDD, 40 tracks, 5 sectors/track, 1024 bytes each.
The Osborne Vixen 4 luggable; portable computer released by the Osborne Computer Corporation in 1984, as a followup to their Osborne 1 system.
73117 stands at Gatwick Airport while 33204 can be seen in the shadows on a UKF fertilizer train. 5/8/86.
Woman working on old computer doing her household budget looking at floppy disks
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I found these when clearing some stuff out - don't think I'll be using them again somehow!
The IBM 360 green card was absolutely indispensable when coding in assembler (and hacking core dumps for that matter)
Many a midnight hour...after cutting my teeth on a 360 and 370 it was off to ICL territory with a 1904, George 3, PLAN and all that, then GEC 4000 series...who remembers any of these?
Day 216.
Inexplicably the phone line just sorted itself out at about 2pm, thankfully before the engineer was dispatched. It may have been something to do with O2...
Waiting around half the day for the engineer I got on with clearing the attic room to turn it into a guest room/study. Currently the attic has loads of stuff that never got sorted after the move including my old laptop! I say old, I never did actually replace it.
Almost nine years old and still sort of hanging in there, I think this is testament to how well this obscure German company make computers and also how damn well I look after my stuff (take a look at what camera I use....)
It crashed when I tried a clean install of Ubuntu but until then it was working ok so I might see if anyone in eBay-land wants to take it off my hands... if not perhaps a museum.