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My newly purchased Atari Portfolio, one of the first pocket computers made. Bidded SEK 205 on a Swedish auction site. No accessories unfortunately. Another Atari item for the collection though. :)
Hand-held camera, no flash, ISO400.
The interior of the game diskette package. The disk is not a 3.5" disk nor an Amstrad-type disk. It may be of the miniature disk format used by some old samplers, synthesisers and word processors.
On the left, an Apple I - the first computer produced by Apple. On the right, an Altair 8800, the first 'personal computer'.
The Oric-1 Companion by Bob Maunder was published by LINSAC in 1983. It is a reference guide for the more advanced user of the Oric and includes a full ROM disassembly.
In the 1980s, Acorn developed the ARM CPU (as seen in your iPhone) and a workstation operating system for it named RiscOS. The ARM CPU has evolved into a lot of tiny systems, and RiscOS has become almost free; here it is running on a tiny board named the BeagleBoard. It's a workstation that fits in a pocket.
Shot of my Amiga 2000 with her little friend the Iomega Zip 100 (SCSI). I've since moved the drive away from the monitor for fear of potential data corruption.
Those are real C= speakers, by the way. :)
After a hesitant start - you'd be grumpy if you'd been woken up after a few decades' sleep - it seems still to be working!