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One of my hobbies is collecting retro-computers, focusing on computers made by Atari. I have currently have eleven different Atari-models, three from Commodore and one other model in my collection.
The Atari TT was Atari's flagship computer, boasting with a 32MHz 68030 CPU. When I learned about it I always dreamt of owning one, but back then there was just no way I could afford one.
But despite moving on to PC the dream was always there to one day own an Atari TT. And in the beginning of 2012, I was finally able to lay my hands on one on Ebay from Germany. When checking it more carefully it turns out it was sold on Ebay from Austria a couple of months earlier. It was then equipped with an extra graphics card and that owner had moved the two extra serial ports to the case, that's how I recognised it.
To my absolute horror it developed some bad hardware errors after a week, crashing all the time and refusing to boot, but luckily it turns out that since this is a relatively early model, most chips are in sockets, so all I needed to do was to push down on some chips to make it work again. But since then I'm really careful about not moving it about too much.
I've got 16MB of TT-RAm for it now, replaced the cooling fan and the clock battery. One of these days I plan to retro-bright the case as well.
The Nintendo NAS contains the following hardware.
CV860A Motherboard with onboard Via Eden C3 at 800Mhz
512 Mb RAM
400Gb 3.5″ IDE Hard disk.
3 * 100MB Lan connections
The LEDs on the front panel indicate power, disk activity and LAN activity. The power button turns the NAS on (funny that!) The reset button is not connected.
I’ve not put a CDROM drive inside the unit that utilises the cartridge flap on the front. Ive mounted the hard drive behind it instead.
The plan was to install FreeNAS, but I’ve now decided to put Ubuntu server on instead. I can then put a full Apache/MySQL installation on it and publish its website to the internet. I will put a guest book system on it, so visitors can sigh the log. Keep an eye on nintendonas.retrocomputers.eu . I should have the site live by the new year.
Dont forget to checkout www.retrocomputers.eu for more info about my retro computer collection.
For more information about The National Museum of Computing , visit www.tnmoc.org
Please take a look at www.retrocomputers.eu for more info about my retro computer collection.
One of my hobbies is collecting retro-computers, focusing on computers made by Atari. I have currently have eleven different Atari-models, three from Commodore and one other model in my collection.
In 1988 - 89 I was in first year in High School. That meant a new school and new friends and new influences. As I mentioned earlier home computers was pretty rare around this part of Sweden, not many had an interest in computers and fewer had them at home, though things started to change now. I had seen an Commodore Amiga at a friends home a few years earlier, but he only used it for games, and I was more into programming so it didn't really leave that much of an impression as I can recall.
But the Commodore 64 I had at home started to feel somewhat limited and old, so it was time for a change. And the choice was between the Commodore Amiga and the Atari ST. Most of of my friends had already gone for the Atari, and it was also considerably cheaper than the Amiga, so it was an obvious choice.
This is my Atari 520 STfm that I bought in February 1989. It has been through a lot, I used it for running a BBS for about 5 years, the original PSU is broken so I had an external PSU for it, the floppy drive didn't seem to work the last time I tried it. It's been through a failed memory upgrade and it was one of the rare ST's that had the flawed DMA-chip that the first generations of STE's had, so the motherboard is replaced with an 1 MB board. Currently it's mostly a wreck and donor a computer.
SD2IEC is a hardware mass storage device using an SD/MMC card and interfacing with the IEC bus. It is based on the ATmega644 microcontroller from the Atmel AVR microcontroller family. The most prominent use of SD2IEC is emulation/replacement of aCommodore-1541 disk drive for a C64.
Please take a look at www.retrocomputers.eu for more info about my retro computer collection.
LK1,LK2,LK3 are optional links on the CPC mainboard, connected to PPI Port B, Bit1-3. The links select the distributor name (which is displayed by the BIOS in the boot message).
These LKs exist on all CPC mainboards. By default, LK1-LK3 are not installed (Amstrad). Other combinations are LK2 installed in german Schneider models, and LK1+LK2 in australian Awa models.
Please take a look at www.retrocomputers.eu for more info about my retro computer collection.
The DualOS Master Board from RetroClinic replaces the original 1Mbit ROM on the BBC Master 128. It contains 2 versions of the Master MOS, the original 3.20 that most machines come with, and the later MOS 3.50, with all the later versions of the utilities.
A switchable MOS gives the best of both worlds for compatibility. As was the case with the B+, and the Master when it first came out, because of changes to the OS code, software that accesses the operating system directly did not like the changes, and either ran badly, or crashed completely. This is still the case with the MOS 3.50. If you use only the later version, some of the games and utilities you used to enjoy and use will not work any more. Having both in your machine, available at the flick of a switch, gives you the most flexibility.
Both versions of the MOS have been correctly patched for the Y2K bug, so the year displays correctly from 1980 to 2079 - essential if some software was not written to be Y2K compliant, and you need to back the year off to make it run. Also, the DFS in MOS 3.50 has been patched to correct several bugs, and allow double density formatting under the DFS with the correct system calls. Add to that, the ADFSs on both versions of the operating system have been patched to use the Compact Flash Hard Drive.
You can find out more about the DualMOS at www.retroclinic.com/acorn/acorn.htm
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Popular in the 1970's the acoustic coupler was a device that allows a computer to connect to other computers. The first acoustic couplers connected to the phone handset and transmitted at a speeds of 300 baud as analog sound signals that were transferred to digital by the acoustic coupler.
I just wish modern broadband modems came in wooden boxes!
Don't forget to checkout www.retrocomputers.eu for more info about my retro computer collection.
For more information about The National Museum of Computing , visit www.tnmoc.org
Please take a look at www.retrocomputers.eu for more info about my retro computer collection.
For more information about The National Museum of Computing , visit www.tnmoc.org
Please take a look at www.retrocomputers.eu for more info about my retro computer collection.
LK1,LK2,LK3 are optional links on the CPC mainboard, connected to PPI Port B, Bit1-3. The links select the distributor name (which is displayed by the BIOS in the boot message).
These LKs exist on all CPC mainboards. By default, LK1-LK3 are not installed (Amstrad). Other combinations are LK2 installed in german Schneider models, and LK1+LK2 in australian Awa models.
Please take a look at www.retrocomputers.eu for more info about my retro computer collection.
This is a BBC Model A - the rarer brother of the model B.
Im still in the process of cleaning the case. Its so much better than it was, but more work is needed.
Please take a look at www.retrocomputers.eu for more info about my retro computer collection.
Processor:030
FPU:Some models may have provision for installing an FPU
MMU:Internal
Max Ram:At least 16MB
Ram Type:1 x 72pin SIMM slot
An accelerator that plugs into the trapdoor slot of an A1200. Includes a battery backed up clock. This card may be a version of the Typhoon of Typhoon Mk-II, simply with a germanised name.
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This adapter allows me to use a IDE disk of CF card on my Sinclair +3.
Ive had to install 2 new EPROMS (+3e) in the machine for it to support IDE devices.
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This is how they did piracy back in the 80s. I pulled this chip from a BBC Model B.
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I expanded my 128k CPC 6128 to 192k buy putting a 64k Dk'tronics RAM pack on the expansion port.
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Sinclair C5, one the most ill-fated Sinclair projects ever!
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A mid-90s PC with Pentium 200, 32MB RAM, Windows 95, Highscreen keyboard, Genius mouse, Philips monitor, and no-name IBM-compatible joystick.
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This system uses the Intel N80186 CPU and has 1Mb of RAM. Sadly, currently has no hard disk, so I have to boot from 720k floppy.
Dont forget to checkout retrocomputers.wordpress.com for more info about my retro computer collection.
For more information about The National Museum of Computing , visit www.tnmoc.org
Please take a look at www.retrocomputers.eu for more info about my retro computer collection.