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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.
"Ordinary audio cassettes cannot be used, they are not of sufficient quality to reliably store computer data.
Coleco sold high quality tapes specifically made for the Adam, capable of withstanding the high-speed 20 ips (inches per second) read/write and 80 ips rewind speeds.
SmartBASIC is one of many applications and games available on "Adam High Speed Digital Data Pack".
The Adam also has a cartridge slot on top to accept and play all ColecoVision game cartridges. "
-http://oldcomputers.net/adam.html
Back where I once begun.
The Commodore 64 was my second computer after a Commodore VIC 20. Me and my brother had one for five years or so, before I got an Atari 520STfm. Many great memories with this machine.
1980 circa toy computer with cards. Many games and a special musical card with retrogame real sounds.
Wang VS7130 machine donated by the Ford motor group.
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Multi game joystick containing Space Invaders, Lunar Rescue, Colony 7, Qix and Pheonix.
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VIC-20 PC - Mega Drive emulator
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Photos takes from the forthcoming BBC Four TV program "Micro Men". Was previously called Syntax Era
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Pentium 200 PC with Windows 95 and a Philips monitor. The screen reads "It's now safe to turn off your computer" in Polish. Also featured Bratek, a Polish commie-era telephone.
Don't know why I took a photo of this. Maybe caus im proud it worked first time.
It allows me to connect my Oric-1 to my Amstrad CRT monitor that I use on my CPC 464/6128
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Commodore C64G with Commodore 1082 monitor, 1541 II floppy drive, 1530 C2N Datasette tape drive and Multi-Function 2002 (aka Micro-Händler) joystick. Uridium game loaded.
I think I need to build a wooden PC now!
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Please take a look at www.retrocomputers.eu for more info about my retro computer collection.
Quick comparison of the original ColecoVision controller and the Adam. The only difference as you can see is color ,font and the joystick doesn't have the metal look in the centre..
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Please take a look at www.retrocomputers.eu for more info about my retro computer collection.
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