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Have a trip down memory lane re-discovering your old computer, console or software you used to have.
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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...
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 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...
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 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...
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 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.
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 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....
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 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...
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 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...
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 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....
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 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...
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 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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 ORIC ATMOS
The Oric Atmos was the successor of the Oric 1 and had almost the same features. Its main difference with the Oric 1 was the keyboard and the debugged ROM (the ORIC 1 had several bugs). Although improved, the loading process from tape was still very uncertain. The real mechanical keyboard was really better.
Two versions were available, with 16 or 48 KB of RAM. 16 KB version couldn't be upgraded, very few of them were sold.
There were also new Basic instru...
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 TANDY RADIO SHACK 2000
The Tandy 2000 was launched in December 1981, a full year BEFORE the 1000, and proved to be a mistake on the part of Tandy, but to their credit they weren’t alone, many manufacturers who built systems based on the Intel 80186 CPU suffered the same fate.
On the surface the computer was quite the catch:
The “T-2000” featured new instructions and new fault tolerance protection over the TRS-80 and COCO lines. Tandy built the 2000 with advanced color graphics, Intel 16bit processing at 8 Mhz and ...
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 RESEARCH MACHINES Nimbus PC
When the Nimbus PC series was launched, Research Machines already had a long history of providing innovative and reliable computers for the British education market.
The Nimbus PC was also intended to support schools in the use of the computers. It wasn't a pale copy of a standard PC but a fast and versatile DOS machine entirely designed and manufactured by RM.
The basic machine held 192 KB of RAM, a single 720 KB floppy drive and extended sound and graphics. It could be expanded to 1 MB ...
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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....
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 YASHICA YC-64
This is a classic MSX 1 computer made by Kyocera and sold by Yashica. Kyocera didn't sell any MSX computers under its brand name, but conceived a few like the Philips VG-8020 and the above for example...
The Yashica YC-64 is somewhat original as it is red!
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 OHIO SCIENTIFIC Superboard II
The Superboard II, also called Model 600, was quite the same board as the british clone Compukit UK-101.
It came in only ready built version and did not featured neither power regulation on board - User had to build or buy a 5V external power supply - nor RF modulator to display on a standard TV, but only a composite video output.
A 40 pin IC socket allowed an expansion board and OSI bus to be connected, giving access to memory expansion (up to 64 KB...
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 APPLE APPLE III
The Apple /// was designed to be a business machine. It was partly compatible with the Apple II (thanks to a few options in the operating system). It used a powerful memory management system and worked under SOS (Sophisticated Operating System) which was a great, device -independent, operating system. This OS was the "ancestor" of ProDOS (the "professional" Apple operating system) and some parts of this system were used later in the | |
 SHARP X1-CK (CZ-804C)
The X1ck, as well as the X1cs, are derived from the X1c. They are low price models.
The difference between X1c and X1ck, is that the X1ck has a "KANJI" ROM (Chinese characters, character matrix 16x16 pixels) as standard.
Tape Basic and Disk Basic were available but had to be loaded from tape....
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 SPECTRAVIDEO SVI 728
Spectravideo was the only american MSX manufacturer, but they were later bought back by their manufacturer based in Honk-Kong.
For their first computers, the SV-318 and 328, Spectravideo asked naturally Microsoft to develop a Basic. Then, when Microsoft developped the MSX Basic, they used their previous work with Spectravideo. That's why there's always been a rumour saying that the SV-318 and 328 were | |
 EAGLE COMPUTERS INC. Spirit
This transportable computer was compatible with the IBM PC-XT. It had a built-in 9" monochrome monitor, one or two 5"1/4 disk-drive (320k) and a 10 Mb hard-disk for the "1 disk model". This hard-disk was half thinner than "classic" hard-disks of that time (Slimline technology).
It also had a color graphic board but the built-in monitor was monochrome (no color model was available). It was not completely useless as it enabled to display 8 shades of green... Hopefully it was possible to connec...
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TOSHIBA T 1200
I bought the 1200HB in the summer of 1988. The backlit screens were on backorder at the time. One of my buddies with the dual floppy T1200 thought I was crazy to have the hard-disk. This laptop worked great for me as I started up power plants in India, Pakistan, Caribbean. GE didn''t supply laptops for field engineers at the time. It worked great for me for 3 years. My only gripe was the 9600 baud speed limit on the serial port. I installed a combo board which gave me 2MB RAM and the 1200 Baud modem. I still have it and every once in a while boot it up. I upgraded it to MS-DOS 6.2, which was difficult since it was only available on 1.44MB disks.
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COMMODORE C64
When I see the messages 10 years before its really amazing how the technologies are developed now with the iptv , voip no need to many things to enjoy the life we just need a good internet provider such the one i have https://www.bravotelecom.com/en-CA/internet-provider-residential.php
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COMMODORE AMIGA 1000
Its a shame people in the below comments have to lie about Jay and the Amiga ,and say the above info in this case isnt right. As of this writing.To promote the lies and to go so far as make Jay a non creator oh Illuminati u have gone even unto Amiga
Screen grab taken.
its Lorraine 1979-80
hightorro 1980-81
Amiga/inc. 1982
Yes, Amigas prior name can be a project or a code name apple or any othere company had code names or projects . That where there product also. Amiga was one such code name. Really ,guys you say it was just inc then wait its high toro then..you conflict ..you cant have your cake and eat it too,and guess what that is a code/project inc ,and a product as well.. oopss conflict of what was and has been said prior.
late 87 earl 1988 Amiga 3000 was released
1986 Amiga cdtv was released
Amiga CD32/ Amiga 1200 1990
Aga chipsset chip was ready by 1988 they where moving on devleoping the aaa .The corrupt management Wanted to delay the AGA by another 2 years.So the ECS was released .REally, guys all you have to do is take away 8bits oh bing the 16bit ecs is there the zorr3 was ready.
Dave said the CDTV was ready 2 yeas prior.
I went to Mass Brothers in Gasinvelle ,Fl in 1988.TO see and purchase 3 parts to make whole.
Thee a1200 I bought from the UF book store owner in 1991 New the people in Amiga. Sterling S.New people in Amiga also as he got the /a 1990 cd32.it seems we have inundated apple/atari $ Illuminati influenced / one in the same people That are against people like me. That tell the truth. That prevent , any and all from correcting any info on wiki,or anywhere else for that matter. That leads to the Truth on Amiga this includes the Mass Brother link Sad indeed. Nor do they want to hear it. Yes, they want to make a video of the lies.or print the lies Me I won''t allow the lies to continue as I promised Jay as he asked.RIP
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OLIVETTI M24
I have an Olivetti PE24 (which I was given in 1990), which is similar to a M24. The PE stands for Personal Engineering. I have had it stored in my garage for nearly 20 years, and yesterday I plugged it in and it started up perfectly.
I have all the manuals that go with it. The Installation and Operations Guide says:
"The Personal Engineering (PE) 24 is designed to meet, in full, the requirements of the CAD/CAM market. The system is based on the Olivetti M24 SP personal computer, with additional features to support the graphics environment.
"The PE 24 uses an advanced graphics controller and a high resolution, colour video display and runs software specialized for the CAD/CAM environment.
"The operating system used by the PE 24 is MS-DOS. The graphics primitives for the graphics controller can be written in the following compiler languages:
* FORTRAN 77
* C
* PASCAL
* BASIC
I have looked for information online about the PE24, but can''t find any references to it. Maybe this is quite a rare old computer that I have.
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TANDY RADIO SHACK Color Computer 3
This was also my first computer since I owned a 2600 Atari and NES game system back in 1987. Learning basic was fun on this system with the built in color graphics. I remember bagging my parents for the floppy drive unit shortly afterwords and was able to save the basic programs and run games like Kings Quest. This was truly a revolution for the time and even had a special color monitor that could be purchased. What I was especially impressed about this system is all the expansion options that were available. When I was younger growing up I could all the options at once but being able to upgrade the system was an advantage along with having the composite video connection to get started.
One of my biggest regrets was selling my entire system for $50 USD and purchasing a 286 computer at the time. This system and the first IBM computer tough me a lot. The new generation of youth has a lot to be learned as we grew up in our generation.
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YAMAHA CX5M Music Computer
I have an old cx5m that I am refurbishing - however it''s missing a couple of function keys. Does anyone know where I can pick up parts?
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FORTUNE 32:16
This was the first Unix system I ever worked with. I found it in a lab at my University and started teaching myself Unix.
The school saw what I was doing on my own time and hired me as a system administrator for their new Sun-2 as a freshman.
My how time has flown. Most people have forgotten all about the Fortune if they ever knew about it at all.
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