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the HP 21005 tape reader @ University of Salerno

Running an 1802 machine code routine using EF1 sync (not interrupts) to display 36 characters from a message buffer.

I purchased this second hand when I started collecting and had it sent down from Queensland. The Ohio Scientific computers were interesting: I gather that this and the 8P were intended for home automation, hence the huge number of ports at the back. I was told that it was horrible to work on in winter, as the fan pushed cold air up through the keyboard.

This computer was used for data collection in medical experiments.

A portable DVD player with a video input jack provided a handy test screen for ELF2K's vintage PIXIE (RCA1861) graphics chip output.

MAXIM MAX232: THIS IS NOT a vintage component...sorry but I had only one single power supply rail (+5v) available...

Olivetti Programma 101, 1965.

Il Comune di Forte dei Marmi, in collaborazione con Lilio Tarabella e il suo ‘Tarabella Hotel’, ci hanno offerto la possibilità di esporre, nella splendida cornice del Fortino di Piazza Garibaldi, una selezione delle macchine ‘storiche’ più significative nel percorso evolutivo di Apple.

Al Fortino sono arrivati l’Apple Lisa, il TAM (Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh), il Portable, il Macintosh 128k, i Newton, le Quicktake, il Set Top Box, l’Apple II, l’Apple //c, l’eMate, e tanti altri pezzi rarissimi del Museo All About Apple.

Il Comune di Forte dei Marmi, in collaborazione con Lilio Tarabella e il suo ‘Tarabella Hotel’, ci hanno offerto la possibilità di esporre, nella splendida cornice del Fortino di Piazza Garibaldi, una selezione delle macchine ‘storiche’ più significative nel percorso evolutivo di Apple.

Al Fortino sono arrivati l’Apple Lisa, il TAM (Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh), il Portable, il Macintosh 128k, i Newton, le Quicktake, il Set Top Box, l’Apple II, l’Apple //c, l’eMate, e tanti altri pezzi rarissimi del Museo All About Apple.

An Acorn Archimedes; designed in Cambridge, it was based on a revolutionary processor named the ARM and knocked the Amiga into a cocked hat. (Personal anecdote: they had one of these in the computer lab at my school on the open day before I enrolled; when I started classes next year, I learned that it had been on loan, and all they had was BBC Micros. Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?)

Identification plate on Burroughs TD700 Self-Scan early gas plasma display screen with main control unit and keyboard. Design Level (DL) 4 c1973.

 

Although the control unit identity plate is stamped for 240 volts, the power supply test points for 5.1v, 12v, -12v, 30v, and -250v were all up to required values on 110 volts AC supply from the variac..!

Il Comune di Forte dei Marmi, in collaborazione con Lilio Tarabella e il suo ‘Tarabella Hotel’, ci hanno offerto la possibilità di esporre, nella splendida cornice del Fortino di Piazza Garibaldi, una selezione delle macchine ‘storiche’ più significative nel percorso evolutivo di Apple.

Al Fortino sono arrivati l’Apple Lisa, il TAM (Twentieth Anniversary Macintosh), il Portable, il Macintosh 128k, i Newton, le Quicktake, il Set Top Box, l’Apple II, l’Apple //c, l’eMate, e tanti altri pezzi rarissimi del Museo All About Apple.

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