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Made by a couple of hardware designers who left Sinclair, this is somewhere between the ZX81 and Spectrum, and is famous for being the only home micro to ship with Forth, not BASIC.
I love Forth, me.
If you're aware of the Postscript programming/page description language or PDF (Postscript's idiot, younger brother), then they're both Forth's grandchildren. Forth is the only high level language to ever leave the solar system.
One of the first 1000 Apple IIGS signed by Woz (he bought it for $1000 in 1986) and his new iPhone 3GS ($299 - he had a first gen iPhone which was recently stolen on the 22, so he was able to get the good price).
oldcomputers.net/appleiigs.html
iPhone launch at MacWorld, the long lines of the debut, the 3G, iPhone devcamps, and more at
One of the first 1000 Apple IIGS signed by Woz (he bought it for $1000 in 1986) and his new iPhone 3GS ($299 - he had a first gen iPhone which was recently stolen on the 22, so he was able to get the good price).
oldcomputers.net/appleiigs.html
iPhone launch at MacWorld, the long lines of the debut, the 3G, iPhone devcamps, and more at
'Nuff said. In fact, you never say anything bad about the Amiga because Commodore fanboys can make Apple fanboys look like choir boys. I never had one of these, but it was a great computer. Honest. Don't kill me!
Simvol IK clone of ZX Spectrum 48K
Игровой компьютер «Символ»
CPU: КР1858ВМ1 or Т34ВМ1 (Z80A russian clone)
CPU clock: 4 MHz
Chipset: Т34ВГ1 (ULA russian clone)
Memory: 16K ROM + 48K RAM
Firmware: Sinclair 1982 or Didaktik Scalica 1989
Video: RGB or b/w monitor or TV
Audio: 1-channel beeper (on PCB) and audio output to monitor/TV
Input: KEMPSTON Joystick compatible interface (in chipset), tape, mechanic keyboard.
Enchanced functions: possibility of install КР580ВВ55 chip — parallel interface for printer (Centronics), CPU system bus (not installed, but placed on PCB).
Sofware compatibility with ZX Spectrum 48K
SIze: 270 x 170 x 60 mm
Weight: <1,1 kg
Power: +5V, <3W
Temp: 10°C — 35°C
Origin: Russia, Penza city, 1994
This one is from the Nineties. It's an drastically improved CPC-6128 with excellent sound and graphics.
Which, sadly, is entirely disabled unless you use game cartridges. If you want to use it as a computer, it's the same boring CPC-6128. Although the 6128 was a great computer for 1985, it wasn't exactly the best spec out there in the Nineties. Not very cleverly designed, which is a pity. If they'd left the hardware unlocked, it'd make a much better computer!
Stamford, CT.
Brochure #4
1984
Written by Alan Goodman
Production: Jessica Wolf
Produced by Fred/Alan Inc.
###
In the late 70s I was producing jazz records and became friendly with Michael Cuscuna, soon to become one of the medium's most revered producers and the leading reissue producer in history.
In the early 80s he and BlueNote Records executive Charlie Lourie started the pioneering Mosaic Records as the first company specializing in boxed set reissues of classic performances, available only by mail order. Michael and I became reacquainted when I ordered their first set (The Complete BlueNote Recordings of Thelonious Monk) and he asked me to get involved with helping them out of the hole. It turned out their 'sure thing' idea wasn't having many takers and they were worried about shutting down.
My partner Alan Goodman and I turned them down two years in a row with a lot of unsolitcited advice about what they could do better --we were broke and our company was barely alive itself-- even if we were talking through our hats. Everything we knew about direct mail cataloging was from being mail order customers ourselves and from a direct mail how-to book I'd read the first chapter of. We loved Michael and Charlie, and we admired what they were trying to accomplish at Mosaic, but we were just too low on bandwidth.
Three years in our company was doing a little better and Mosaic was doing a lot worse; Michael and Charlie successfully prevailed on us to finally help. We knew no more, but full of the arrogance of youth we lugged out Alan's first generation portable computer and invented the first Mosaic 12-page brochure on our summer picnic table. Alan wrote every word (I supervised "strategy" -- what else is new?), our friends Tom Corey and Scott Nash designed the thing, Jessica Wolf supervised the production and we mailed out the first Mosaic catalog ever in the summer of 1986.
We waited for the order phones to ring, and lo and behold, in the first three weeks Mosaic's business had increased 10 fold. They were in business forever. Alan's still writing the brochures, I'm still getting the free box sets and lobbing in ideas from the side. What a world we live in. I've never been prouder of any project I've worked on in my life.
Do you like jazz? Order one of the Mosaic sets. They are still the standard by which all others are judged.
Simvol IK clone of ZX Spectrum 48K
Игровой компьютер «Символ»
CPU: КР1858ВМ1 or Т34ВМ1 (Z80A russian clone)
CPU clock: 4 MHz
Chipset: Т34ВГ1 (ULA russian clone)
Memory: 16K ROM + 48K RAM
Firmware: Sinclair 1982 or Didaktik Scalica 1989
Video: RGB or b/w monitor or TV
Audio: 1-channel beeper (on PCB) and audio output to monitor/TV
Input: KEMPSTON Joystick compatible interface (in chipset), tape, mechanic keyboard.
Enchanced functions: possibility of install КР580ВВ55 chip — parallel interface for printer (Centronics), CPU system bus (not installed, but placed on PCB).
Sofware compatibility with ZX Spectrum 48K
SIze: 270 x 170 x 60 mm
Weight: <1,1 kg
Power: +5V, <3W
Temp: 10°C — 35°C
Origin: Russia, Penza city, 1994
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.
Stamford, CT.
Brochure #4
1984
Written by Alan Goodman
Production: Jessica Wolf
Produced by Fred/Alan Inc.
###
In the late 70s I was producing jazz records and became friendly with Michael Cuscuna, soon to become one of the medium's most revered producers and the leading reissue producer in history.
In the early 80s he and BlueNote Records executive Charlie Lourie started the pioneering Mosaic Records as the first company specializing in boxed set reissues of classic performances, available only by mail order. Michael and I became reacquainted when I ordered their first set (The Complete BlueNote Recordings of Thelonious Monk) and he asked me to get involved with helping them out of the hole. It turned out their 'sure thing' idea wasn't having many takers and they were worried about shutting down.
My partner Alan Goodman and I turned them down two years in a row with a lot of unsolitcited advice about what they could do better --we were broke and our company was barely alive itself-- even if we were talking through our hats. Everything we knew about direct mail cataloging was from being mail order customers ourselves and from a direct mail how-to book I'd read the first chapter of. We loved Michael and Charlie, and we admired what they were trying to accomplish at Mosaic, but we were just too low on bandwidth.
Three years in our company was doing a little better and Mosaic was doing a lot worse; Michael and Charlie successfully prevailed on us to finally help. We knew no more, but full of the arrogance of youth we lugged out Alan's first generation portable computer and invented the first Mosaic 12-page brochure on our summer picnic table. Alan wrote every word (I supervised "strategy" -- what else is new?), our friends Tom Corey and Scott Nash designed the thing, Jessica Wolf supervised the production and we mailed out the first Mosaic catalog ever in the summer of 1986.
We waited for the order phones to ring, and lo and behold, in the first three weeks Mosaic's business had increased 10 fold. They were in business forever. Alan's still writing the brochures, I'm still getting the free box sets and lobbing in ideas from the side. What a world we live in. I've never been prouder of any project I've worked on in my life.
Do you like jazz? Order one of the Mosaic sets. They are still the standard by which all others are judged.
Stamford, CT.
Brochure #4
1984
Written by Alan Goodman
Production: Jessica Wolf
Produced by Fred/Alan Inc.
###
In the late 70s I was producing jazz records and became friendly with Michael Cuscuna, soon to become one of the medium's most revered producers and the leading reissue producer in history.
In the early 80s he and BlueNote Records executive Charlie Lourie started the pioneering Mosaic Records as the first company specializing in boxed set reissues of classic performances, available only by mail order. Michael and I became reacquainted when I ordered their first set (The Complete BlueNote Recordings of Thelonious Monk) and he asked me to get involved with helping them out of the hole. It turned out their 'sure thing' idea wasn't having many takers and they were worried about shutting down.
My partner Alan Goodman and I turned them down two years in a row with a lot of unsolitcited advice about what they could do better --we were broke and our company was barely alive itself-- even if we were talking through our hats. Everything we knew about direct mail cataloging was from being mail order customers ourselves and from a direct mail how-to book I'd read the first chapter of. We loved Michael and Charlie, and we admired what they were trying to accomplish at Mosaic, but we were just too low on bandwidth.
Three years in our company was doing a little better and Mosaic was doing a lot worse; Michael and Charlie successfully prevailed on us to finally help. We knew no more, but full of the arrogance of youth we lugged out Alan's first generation portable computer and invented the first Mosaic 12-page brochure on our summer picnic table. Alan wrote every word (I supervised "strategy" -- what else is new?), our friends Tom Corey and Scott Nash designed the thing, Jessica Wolf supervised the production and we mailed out the first Mosaic catalog ever in the summer of 1986.
We waited for the order phones to ring, and lo and behold, in the first three weeks Mosaic's business had increased 10 fold. They were in business forever. Alan's still writing the brochures, I'm still getting the free box sets and lobbing in ideas from the side. What a world we live in. I've never been prouder of any project I've worked on in my life.
Do you like jazz? Order one of the Mosaic sets. They are still the standard by which all others are judged.
Stamford, CT.
Brochure #4
1984
Written by Alan Goodman
Production: Jessica Wolf
Produced by Fred/Alan Inc.
###
In the late 70s I was producing jazz records and became friendly with Michael Cuscuna, soon to become one of the medium's most revered producers and the leading reissue producer in history.
In the early 80s he and BlueNote Records executive Charlie Lourie started the pioneering Mosaic Records as the first company specializing in boxed set reissues of classic performances, available only by mail order. Michael and I became reacquainted when I ordered their first set (The Complete BlueNote Recordings of Thelonious Monk) and he asked me to get involved with helping them out of the hole. It turned out their 'sure thing' idea wasn't having many takers and they were worried about shutting down.
My partner Alan Goodman and I turned them down two years in a row with a lot of unsolitcited advice about what they could do better --we were broke and our company was barely alive itself-- even if we were talking through our hats. Everything we knew about direct mail cataloging was from being mail order customers ourselves and from a direct mail how-to book I'd read the first chapter of. We loved Michael and Charlie, and we admired what they were trying to accomplish at Mosaic, but we were just too low on bandwidth.
Three years in our company was doing a little better and Mosaic was doing a lot worse; Michael and Charlie successfully prevailed on us to finally help. We knew no more, but full of the arrogance of youth we lugged out Alan's first generation portable computer and invented the first Mosaic 12-page brochure on our summer picnic table. Alan wrote every word (I supervised "strategy" -- what else is new?), our friends Tom Corey and Scott Nash designed the thing, Jessica Wolf supervised the production and we mailed out the first Mosaic catalog ever in the summer of 1986.
We waited for the order phones to ring, and lo and behold, in the first three weeks Mosaic's business had increased 10 fold. They were in business forever. Alan's still writing the brochures, I'm still getting the free box sets and lobbing in ideas from the side. What a world we live in. I've never been prouder of any project I've worked on in my life.
Do you like jazz? Order one of the Mosaic sets. They are still the standard by which all others are judged.
Stamford, CT.
Brochure #4
1984
Written by Alan Goodman
Production: Jessica Wolf
Produced by Fred/Alan Inc.
###
In the late 70s I was producing jazz records and became friendly with Michael Cuscuna, soon to become one of the medium's most revered producers and the leading reissue producer in history.
In the early 80s he and BlueNote Records executive Charlie Lourie started the pioneering Mosaic Records as the first company specializing in boxed set reissues of classic performances, available only by mail order. Michael and I became reacquainted when I ordered their first set (The Complete BlueNote Recordings of Thelonious Monk) and he asked me to get involved with helping them out of the hole. It turned out their 'sure thing' idea wasn't having many takers and they were worried about shutting down.
My partner Alan Goodman and I turned them down two years in a row with a lot of unsolitcited advice about what they could do better --we were broke and our company was barely alive itself-- even if we were talking through our hats. Everything we knew about direct mail cataloging was from being mail order customers ourselves and from a direct mail how-to book I'd read the first chapter of. We loved Michael and Charlie, and we admired what they were trying to accomplish at Mosaic, but we were just too low on bandwidth.
Three years in our company was doing a little better and Mosaic was doing a lot worse; Michael and Charlie successfully prevailed on us to finally help. We knew no more, but full of the arrogance of youth we lugged out Alan's first generation portable computer and invented the first Mosaic 12-page brochure on our summer picnic table. Alan wrote every word (I supervised "strategy" -- what else is new?), our friends Tom Corey and Scott Nash designed the thing, Jessica Wolf supervised the production and we mailed out the first Mosaic catalog ever in the summer of 1986.
We waited for the order phones to ring, and lo and behold, in the first three weeks Mosaic's business had increased 10 fold. They were in business forever. Alan's still writing the brochures, I'm still getting the free box sets and lobbing in ideas from the side. What a world we live in. I've never been prouder of any project I've worked on in my life.
Do you like jazz? Order one of the Mosaic sets. They are still the standard by which all others are judged.
And here's one of the cards. The two 8-pin chips have datemarks 7415 and 7417—so they were manufacured in the 15th and 17th weeks of 1974. I think they're just operational amplifiers, not logic. I assume this is an amplifier.
i got this just cause i thought it was a cool-very old computer,could do a lot with a case this big.
amd 100,64 ram,turbo button
Love me some Apple. The company and the fruit. :)
Been a Mac user since 1994, surfing the web on a Powerbook 145B, which I still have btw. :) Been a Mac user longer than that if you count the Apple iiGS that we had back in the late 1980s. I had a momentary lapse in judgment during the late 90s when I switched to Windows. But I have since found my way again. LOL. Now if only I would have put more faith in the company by investing more money in Apple Stock.
Excuse me while I drool.
European home micro users who lusted after the Acorn BBC Model B eventually graduated to having impure thoughts about this baby. A RISC workstation for the home.
By the way, go find your iPAD, mobile phone, MP3 player, and steal a quick look at your broadband router — they run on the same CPU architecture, making the ARM the mostly widely deployed computer architecture on the planet.
Simvol IK clone of ZX Spectrum 48K
Игровой компьютер «Символ»
CPU: КР1858ВМ1 or Т34ВМ1 (Z80A russian clone)
CPU clock: 4 MHz
Chipset: Т34ВГ1 (ULA russian clone)
Memory: 16K ROM + 48K RAM
Firmware: Sinclair 1982 or Didaktik Scalica 1989
Video: RGB or b/w monitor or TV
Audio: 1-channel beeper (on PCB) and audio output to monitor/TV
Input: KEMPSTON Joystick compatible interface (in chipset), tape, mechanic keyboard.
Enchanced functions: possibility of install КР580ВВ55 chip — parallel interface for printer (Centronics), CPU system bus (not installed, but placed on PCB).
Sofware compatibility with ZX Spectrum 48K
SIze: 270 x 170 x 60 mm
Weight: <1,1 kg
Power: +5V, <3W
Temp: 10°C — 35°C
Origin: Russia, Penza city, 1994
On the left, the Powerbook Duo 230, purchased in 1994; on the right, my 12" Powerbook G4, purchased in 2004. The machine on the left cost about $2,500, has a 33 MHz 68030 processor, has 24 Mb of RAM, and has a passive-matrix 640x480 grayscale screen; the machine on the right cost about $1,500, has a 1.33 GHz G4 processor, has 640 Mb of RAM, and has an active-matrix 1024x768 color screen. That's only the *start* of the list of differences.
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I really did like the Apple IIe line. This was the first model Apple I had the opportunity to try, and the funny "return" key stuck in my mind for - literally - decades afterward.
Atari Mega ST 1 with Atari Megafile 30 hard disk module, Atari keyboard, Atari SM124 monitor and third-party 3.5-inch drive, 5.25-inch drive, mouse.