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Cassette for "The Diabolical Tower", an adventure game for the 48K Oric 1 or Oric Atmos. It was produced by the French software company No Man's Land and released in 1984. The authors were Laurent Larbalette and Ann Fournier.
CLOAD"" - those were the days!
My home made Covox Speech Thing Digital-to-Analog LPT (parallel port) stereo sound card. Fairly easy to build. The sound is not perfect but it plays stereo, 44kHz!
The observatory clock complete with 30 year old nixie tubes.
There was a UTC clock and a sidereal clock, both driven by quite accurate temperature controlled crystals.
The tubes disappeared in early 2009 when the interdata model 70 was decommissioned - the new computer doesn't know how to drive them, and we use a GPS clock now. I've taken the nixie tube javascript clock and hacked it up with photos of these (and the nimos we had in the observatory clock), and they are now on the controlroom mimic. (the javascript clock part of the mimick looks like this).
Above left: The row of tape drives for the UNIVAC I computer. Above right: The IBM 3410 Magnetic Tape Subsystem, introduced in 1971.
Optimus-branded Pentium-class PC, 300 MHz, 128 MB RAM, Soundblaster sound card, DOS 6.22, Duke Nukem 3D + Philips monitor, PS/2 keyboard and mouse
This is a closeup of the MMC2IEC device. It is plugged into the SERIAL port, and there is a connector to the cassette port for +5V.
Macintosh IIsi (M0360) with Macintosh Color Display (M1212), AppleDesign Keyboard (M2980) and MacAlly mouse.
First computer
After viewing the ITCrowd website and seeing their Sinclair ZX81 I had to let out a snigger. My machines better than theirs.
Here's a back shot. Note the 10V DC power supply.
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