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OLIVETTI  A5
Olivetti introduced a mainframe about 1960 which was called ELEA, then in 1965 the Programma 101 - which was probably the world's first real desktop computer. Then a little later they introduced the Audiotronic range of "office computers". The first was the A770, which was replaced by the A7. The A5 was the desktop version. The Olivetti Audit 5 or A5 was largely an electro mechanical computer. It printed via a golf ball typewritter mechanism at the astonishing speed of 16 character per second...
TRIUMPH ADLER  TA-1600
The TA 1600 system was introduced in 1983 at the CeBIT (which was only a part of the "Hannover-Messe" by that time). TA showed a few sample applications and the 1600 family in general. Triumph Adler's hardware included also the 1600/20-3 which was supplied with a permanent-swap-HDD-unit. This unit had a memory/storage capacity of 2 x 8 MB (Winchester technology). Triumph Adler said the system (the 1600) will fit the demand of medium-sized businesses, due to the facts that these companies w...
MIDWICH Microcontroller
Called the Midwich Microcontroller, this British computer was developped to provide a small desktop micro capable of running other equipment throug a variety of interface cards. In 1979 an Italian IC manufacturer designed and began to sell a single board micro system that could be expanded to a full system with a VDU, discs, etc. Called the Nanocomputer, it was manufactured by SGS Ates and one of the distributors in the UK was Midwich. The Nano was somewhat expensive and suffered from a numbe...
RADIONIC Model R1001
This is an extremly rare TRS-80 Model 1 clone, based on an other clone: The Komtek 1 (from Germany). It's equiped with a Level II basic and powered by a Zilog Z80 cpu. _________ Contributors : Incog...
BASF 7100
The BASF 7000 systems are professional computers from Germany. They seem to be based on the Microterm II Intelligent Terminal by Digi-Log Systems, Inc. There were several models in the 7000 serie....
PERTEC PCC 2000
PCC 2000 is a professional computer released in 1978. It was designed in 1978 by Pertec, the company which merged with MITS by the end of 1976. The PCC is conceived as a monobloc machine, where the display and two 8" floppy disk drives are built-in the main case. The mechanical keyboard offers separated numeric and editing keypads. The system is powered by an Intel 8085 microprocessor and offers 64 KB RAM. The whole thing was apparently delivered with an extended Basic language, which has...
TERTA TAP-34
TAP 34 is a self design of Terta company from Hungary. Primarily it was designed as a terminal for big computer systems but it was also able to process data alone. The main integrated circuits were assembled in the USSR and in Hungary by Tungsram, but several parts were imported from other countries. The built-in monitor was a DME-28 monochrome CRT made by Orion. This company was famous for its televisions in Hungary and the other KGST countries. The floppy drive attached to the compute...
MCM COMPUTERS  MCM 800
Based on the MCM 70 / 700 (see this entry for more info), the MCM 800 followed in 1976. It was faster, included 16 KB RAM (instead of 8 KB for the 700), and included the ability to drive an external monitor. Among other things, MCM 800s were used in one of the first french industrial network called Gixinet (along with ARCnet). This was a token-bus type network developped by the Gixi company....
IMLAC PDS-1
The Imlac PDS-1 is a graphical minicomputer made by Imlac Corporation (founded in 1968) of Needham, Massachusetts. The PDS-1 debuted in 1970 and is considered to be the predecessor of all later graphical minicomputers and modern computer workstations. The PDS-1 had a built-in display list processor and 4096 16-bit words of core RAM. The PDS-1 used a vector display processor for displaying vector graphics as opposed to the raster graphics of modern computer displays. The PDS-1 was often used with...
COMMODORE  C64 Golden Jubilee
Between 1984 (in the U.S.) and 1986 (in Germany), Commodore International celebrated the 1,000,000 machines sold mark in these respective countries by issuing special "Gold" editions of the Commodore C64. These machines were regular C64 models, except they were Golden-colored and fixed on a commemorative plate. The following information comes from Death Adder : Until December 1986, 1,000,000 Commodore 64s were sold in Germany. On this occasion, Commodore Buromaschinen GmbH (...

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HBN COMPUTEUR  Le Guepard
This is a french professionnal computer which had no success. It was sold with two 5''1/4 floppy-drives (40 tracks, 360k each) but, could be replaced by 80 tracks ones. A Winchester 5''1/4 hard disk (5 or 10 Mb) can be connected with a special interface, as well as two external 8" floppy disk-drives. It also has a built-in battery (1 hour long) and a real-time clock built-in. The Guepard was delivered with a Basic, an Assembler and two operating systems (New DOS 80-2.0 and CP/M+)...
MICRONIQUE  HECTOR HRX
The HRX is only a 2HR with some more memory (RAM of 64kb) and above all, a new integrated language, the Forth !! Yes, you read well : FORTH. At this time, as the Jupiter Ace was no longer produced, the Hector HRX was simply the only micro-computer in the world with Forth originally integrated (at least I think)....
COMMODORE  CBM 700 Series
The Commodore 700 series featured the same hardware basis as the 600 series but had a built-in tilt-and-swivel monochrome 12" monitor, a detachable keyboard and housing for two 5.25" floppy drives. It was said that the 5/6/700 cases were designed by Porsche, not the more familiar Porsche auto factory, but the separate Porsche Design firm. Three version were also available: • 710 (CBM 128/80 in USA): 128 KB RAM • 720 (CBM 256/80): 256 KB RAM • 730 (CBMX 2...
HEWLETT PACKARD  HP-9816
Hewlett-Packard has been one of the first large manufacturer to adopt the Motorola 68000 microprocessor since 1981. The HP9816 was the fourth 68000 based computer of the brand. It was also called the Series 200 Model 16. Hewlett-Packards Series 200 included the HP-9816, HP-9826, HP-9836, and HP-9836C. The Model 16 was intended to be a "lion package in a house cat". When the keyboard was "parked" in the optional special housing placed under the unit, the...
EACA  VIDEO GENIE III / EG-3200
This Eaca was the successor of the Genie I and Genie II. It was compatible with the Tandy TRS-80 Model 1. The system was supplied with two operating systems, NEWDOS-80 version 2.0 (already available on Genie 1, Genie 2 or TRS-80 Model 1) and CP/M 2.2. Up to four 5'' or 8'' disk drives (640 KB each) could be connected. When NEWDOS was loaded, the BASIC used was a RAM version of the TRS-80 Mod.1 ROM BASIC supplied by Microsoft...
VIDEO TECHNOLOGY  LASER 200 / 210
The Laser 200 / 210 was sold worldwide under different brands (Dick Smith, Texet, Salora, etc...). Maybe the most popular of these "foreign models" was the VZ-200 sold by Dick Smith Electronics. The Laser 200 is the successor of the poor Laser 110 and was followed by the Laser 310. It was a good choice if you wanted to buy a cheap computer for initiation....
MOSTEK MD
The Mostek MD (from Micro Design) marked the entry of Mostek Company in the computer business. It was a development system, aimed at promoting the family of Mostek boards, and built around several boards based on the 64 pin SDT bus. The hearth of the system was the CPU board holding a Z80 (Mostek) processor, 10 KB of ROM and 8 KB of RAM. A large range of additional cards could be then added: dual Serial port, 32 KB RAM, Analogue/digital converter, 32-bit parallel port, and s...
MATTEL ELECTRONICS  Aquarius
When the Keyboard Component project was canceled, Mattel searched in a hurry to produce a small and cheap computer. They contacted Radofin Electronics Far East, based in Hong-Kong, who was manufacturing most of the Intellivision products. Radofin had just developped a line of three Z80 based computers. Mattel decided to sell the two first under their brand. The Aquarius 1 and 2 were born. The Mattel Aquarius used a special version of the Microsoft Basic....
FUJITSU  FM New 7
The FM-NEW7 as its name suggests is the successor of the FM-7. It uses high-integration memory and gate array LSI to reduce price while maintaining FM-7 functionality. But on the paper, there is no real difference between the FM-NEW7 and the "old" FM-7. The system is powered by two Motorola 68B09 micro-processors. One is the main CPU and the other handles video and inputs/outputs. There is a (optional?) Kanji (Chinese characters) ROM offering: 453 JIS non-kanj...
CASIO  FP 1000 / FP 1100
The Casio FP-1000 and FP-1100 were essentially the same machine, except that the 1100 had colour capabilities, 48 KB VRAM and enhanced graphic mode (640 x 400). The FP-1100 came with either a monochrome (green) monitor which would display colour as shades, or the colour monitor. The cable feeding the video to the monitor was a simple 2 core unsheilded RCA cable. The mono minitor had a switch at the back so that one could swap foreground and background (green on black or black on green) Bot...

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Palcom PX-7

 
U.S. advert (1982)

APPLE
APPLE III

 
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MACINTOSH Plus

 
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MYARC
Geneve 9640

 
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TO 7

 
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M10

 
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MK 14

 
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MPF-1 A/B

 
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TI 99 / 4A

 
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PCC 2000

 
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derbs
2/3/2012
ATARI  520 ST / ST+ / STM
Never owned one of these, but thought they were the business back in the day. I had an Atari 800 and looked upon the ST with envy. Just look at those 45 degree function keys, mirroring the vents and badge. That was some industrial design ahead of its time

RICHARD MAGIN
2/3/2012
TANDY RADIO SHACK  Color Computer
HAVE ONE WITH BOX AND ALL. DO NOT NEED. SOMEONE MAY LIKE TO HAVE IT....CHECK OUT MY ART SITE FOR E-MAIL....RICHARDFMAGIN.ARTISTWEBSITES.COM

Chris Van Dyk
2/3/2012
KAYPRO Kaypro 10
I bought a KayPro10 on the advice of my brother, Michael, who advised that CP/M was a known system and KayPro was the best, and MSDOS might fail. He was right. I never could figure out MSDOS and the KayPro is still in the garage$ the file system was delightfully simple. I ran the computer non-stop for a couple years after I opened the box, on political campaigns in Washington and Alaska. After a few years, added a board that gave it DOS capability. Only moved on to lesser machines after about 10 years of use. This was the Model T of microcomputers. Takes about a half hour now to warm up, but still works. Control P still prints....

cath
2/2/2012
ACORN COMPUTER  Archimedes
hi, my father recently passed away and has left a whole stack of old computers BBC and archimedes, i know at least two of each of these computers are working and then there are programs spares and accessories monitors etc i do remember them as a child but i''m no expert on what make model etc, it would seem a shame to skip/dump them does anyone know where i could sell or give to a good home?
thanks in advance cath

Gordon Warnock
2/1/2012
LITTON - MONROE OC-8820
I have a working OC 8820 with a 5 meg hard drive, along with all the manuals and programmers manuals and original disks.

Gordon Warnock
2/1/2012
LITTON - MONROE OC-8820
I have a working OC 8820 with a 5 meg hard drive, along with all the manuals and programmers manuals and original disks.

Robert Wiggins
2/1/2012
TANDY RADIO SHACK  1000 SL & SL/2
I rescued this computer from my high school when it was no longer needed. I liked that it had a 3.5-inch floppy drive, since my other computers at the time only had 5.25-inch floppies.

I used this machine for about three years, during my senior year in high school and two years in college. It had a hard drive installed on an expansion card, and the graphics were a lot better than regular CGA graphics. However, once I added an EGA card to the system, I freed up the system memory that was being used by the onboard adapter.

Later on, I took the EGA card and hard drive out and installed them in another machine. Overall, though, the 1000 served me well and I enjoyed it very much.

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