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Look at that old computer! Remember those green screens? And the kid in the photo is just amazed at how cool and new age it all is! LOL! My how things have changed!
Remember these?
Verzamelaarsjaarbeurs Utrecht.
The International Collectors Fair is Europe's biggest Vintage Event.
Vintage computers:
IBM 5150 (1981) and Tandy 1000HD (1984).
On display by:
Home Computer Museum.
homecomputermuseum.nl
This is a Osborne 1 portable computer.
Introduced: April 1981
Price: US $1,795
Weight: 24.5 pounds
CPU: Zilog Z80 @ 4.0 MHz
RAM: 64K RAM
Display: built-in 5" CRT monitor 53 X 24 text
Ports:parallel / IEEE-488 modem / serial port
Storage: dual 5-1/4 inch, 91K drives
OS: CP/M
A really cool find I made at a church sale this weekend. Only 3 bucks (no kidding). A working Mac Plus. Complete with books, software, and more. Plus I paid another 3 bucks and got the Image Writer printer too. I'll probably never print a thing with... but it was only 3 bucks! Totally worth the 6 bucks to spend the afternoon playing and reminiscing.
This venerable 1984 vintage Apple IIc is similar to the II+ I had a generation ago. My II+ cost my mom about $2000 or so. This was a $12.00 thrift shop find last week.
A 'cool new kid' on the budding home computer block when I was something of a new kid myself, this dusty Apple fired right up after plugging in and connecting to a rather modern portable LCD screen with a video cable.
My 3 year old $3500 Dell XPS doesn't even fire up on the first try. Now where's my copy of Dan Gorlin's Choplifter and Richard Garriott's Ultima series?
Running an 1802 machine code routine using EF1 sync (not interrupts) to display 36 characters from a message buffer.
I'm bringing this photo forward 11 1/2 years for a reason. Last night there was a power surge and my big computer system bit the dust. Kaput. And since it was 7 years old -- but still pretty much state of the art if that is possible -- it wasn't worth the cost to fix it.
I'm on a backup machine now, which lets me do some online things. However, my 37TB storage is not available here, nor is any photo processing software. I'm out of business in that regard until the NEW, super puter gets here. Will be quite a step up, but one I wasn't expecting to make just yet.
So I go back to the very early days of home computing. From the beginning I was a Commodore guy until that company stepped away from general home computing. Went IBM, then IBM compatible, then, quite a few years ago, all computers were custom-designed and custom built. How time flies when we're having fun.
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Highly modified 'hi-res' Commodore 8032 system, set up to input lap results from the Indianapolis 500, using read/data statements and radio broadcast 10 lap standings.
I purchased my first computer in 1985. It was the first revision of the original Macintosh--a Mac Plus. About that time I also began my photography career and was assigned to photograph Apple luminaries. On a couple of occasions I brought along my Mac to be used as a prop and afterwards had the subjects sign the bottom of the case. Signatures seen here include Steve Jobs, Andy Hertzfeld, Mike Boich, Joanne Hoffman, Patti Kenyon, Guy Kawasaki, Larry Keenan and a couple I can't make out. I still have the computer, manuals and discs and could be tempted to sell for the right offer. Scroll down the following link to see computer with Mac team mimicing a characteristic Jobs pose.
www.folklore.org/ProjectView.py?project=Macintosh&ind... by Date&detail=medium&gallery=1
©Robert Holmgren, all rights reserved. bobholmgren@gmail.com
Sinclair Cambridge Programmable Calculator
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinclair_Cambridge
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..!
The H-1642's tape and disk drives, photographed in 1974 at the Educational Computer Center at 1201 Kemper St. in Lynchburg, VIrginia
The Educational Computer Center was a joint venture of Lynchburg College, Randolph-Macon Women's College and Sweet Briar College, and was based in the second floor of the old trolley car barn at 12th and Kemper Sts. in Lynchburg. The Honeywell was the center's academic computer to which students and faculty connected from the three colleges via dialup (acoustic coupler modems) and teletype units.
Dialup service was also provided for two teletypes at E.C. Glass High School, where I first learned of this computer's existence and became a regular user. In the summer prior to my senior year in high school, I obtained a job at the ECC as a weekend operator.
Commodore Amiga 500, Commodore Amiga 1081 monitor, The Arcade joystick, Hitachi boombox. And the Settlers!!!
ENIAC and successor Army computers, 1946-62. From left: Patsy Simmers (mathematician/programmer), holding ENIAC board (1946); Gail Taylor, holding EDVAC board (1949); Milly Beck, holding ORDVAC board (1951); Right: Norma Stec, holding (mathematician/programmer), holding BRLESC-I board (1962).
Date:1962
Source: Image from Historic Computer Images
gallery.lib.umn.edu/exhibits/show/digital-state/item/2371
U.S. Army, “ENIAC and Successor Army Computers,” Gallery, accessed March 16, 2024, gallery.lib.umn.edu/items/show/2371.