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Have a trip down memory lane re-discovering your old computer, console or software you used to have.
There are actually 1287 systems in the museum.
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 NETRONICS Elf II
The Netronics ELF II was an early microcomputer trainer kit featuring the RCA 1802 microprocessor, 256 bytes of RAM, DMA-based bitmap graphics, hexadecimal keypad, two digit hexadecimal LED display, a single "Q" LED, and 5 expansion slots. The system was developed and sold by Netronics Research and Development Limited in New Milford, CT, USA.
Unlike similar "bare circuit card" trainer/experimenter computers of the day, the ELF II could be easily expanded thanks to its built-in bus.
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 ECD CORPORATION Micromind
The Micromind was a very innovative machine ahead of its time ! But despite the small group working on the machine, prototyping and developing, and pushing the limits of the time, the machine never shipped. Apparently only a few prototypes were produced.
Development began as early 1975/1976 but commercial adverts appeared only in 1977.
One of the main features of the Micromind was its innovative (for the time) redefinable characters. Up to 120 characters could be software redefined by the ...
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 SEMI-TECH (STM) PC
This extremely rare computer is Portable PC (IBM compatible) conceived in the same plastic case as the Pied Piper, released by the same company in 1983. This computer incorporates a lot of features in a compact case, which was quite innovative at the time: built-in LCD display, printer, modem, phone and disk drives !
The STM PC is based on an Intel 80186 processor and two quadruple-density disk drives. The processor is faster than the one used in the IBM PC, a...
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 LOGICAL MACHINE CORPORATION (LOMAC) Goliath
Logical’s Goliath is a server or disk file storage device has it was described at the time.
It has a capacity for 10 MByte, 30 MByte or 50 MByte of fixed disk storage and 10 MBytes of removable storage. The unit, which also houses the controller, may have memory ranging from 64K to 256K and capacity for up to 20 terminals.
Up to 20 Tina or David computers can link to Goliath as a distributed data processing system.
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 LOGICAL MACHINE CORPORATION (LOMAC) Adam
The Adam was the first computer released by Logical Machine Corporation (LOMAC) in 1975. In 1978 they also produced Tina which stands for "TINy Adam". In 1983 Logical released the David, and the L-XT in 1983. There was also the Goliath, a data storage server with 5MB hard drive. Goliath could be connected to up to 20 Davids or Tinas. David and Goliath names makes a clear reference to the mythic...
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 LOGICAL MACHINE CORPORATION (LOMAC) Tina
The Adam was the first computer released by Logical Machine Corporation (LOMAC) in 1976. In 1978 they produced Tina which stands for "TINy Adam". It seems to have the same specs as David but with two 8'' floppy disk drives. There was also the Goliath, a data storage server with 5MB hard drive. Goliath could be connected to up to 20 Davids or Tinas. David and Goliath names makes a clear reference to the mythical story found in the biblical Book of S...
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 LOGICAL MACHINE CORPORATION (LOMAC) L-XT
The L-XT was the last computer released by Logical Business Machines, after the Adam, the David, the Tina and the Goliath in 1982. It was announced at the 1983 COMDEX Fall in Las Vegas, and commercially available in March 1984.
The L-XT uses a 16-bit Intel 8088 CPU with 192KB RAM, and equipped with a 5.25'' floppy drive unit (320 KB capacity) and a 10 MB hard disk (upgradable to 60 MB)...
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 LOGICAL MACHINE CORPORATION (LOMAC) David
The David is not the first computer released by Logical Business Machines. In 1974, LOMAC (Logical Machine Corporation) released the Adam. Some times later they also produced Tina (for TINy Adam). There was also the Goliath, a data storage server with 5MB hard drive. Goliath could be connected to up to 20 Davids or Tinas. David and Goliath names makes a clear reference to the mythical story found in the biblical Book of Samuel.
The David is powered by a 16-bit Intel 8086 CPU w...
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 GESPAC Gescomp 720 / 730
GESPAC SA was a Swiss company who designed the G-64/96 Bus in 1979.
This interface bus concept provides a simple way to interface microprocessor modules with memory and peripheral modules on a parallel bus. The G-64/96 Bus uses a simple, yet modern and powerful interface scheme which allows a higher level of functionality from the single height Eurocard form factor. The low overhead of the G-64/96 Bus interface greatly eases the design of custom boards by the User. This is why, even many year...
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 WELECT W86
The W86 is a french computer released in 1983 by Welect. It's the second computer released by Welect after the W80.2.
The W86 is powered by an Intel 8086 (hence its name) to catch up with the IBM PC compatible trend of the moment and is thus able to run MS-DOS. But the W86 is also equipped with a Z80A to also be CP/M 86 compatible. It's thus an hybrid machine typical of the mid-80s when the professional industry was moving from CP/M to MS-DOS.
There are 128...
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 BANDAI TV Jack 5000
The TV Jack 5000 from Bandai released in 1978 is one of the first cartridge based system from Japan.
It's the equivalent of european and american systems like the Hanimex SD-050, Acetronic Color TV Game, Prinztronic Micro 5500, SHG Blackpoint, Binatone Cablestar, Radofin telesports, etc. There have been tons of systems like these.
The TV Jack 5000, like all these systems, use cartridges based on General Instruments chipsets which offers different games on each chip. That's why all these sy...
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 BIT CORPORATION BIT 60
This obscure computer is compatible with the Atari VCS 2600 game system. This feature is typical of eastern countries such has Korea or Honk-Kong where copyrights were not very respected. The Laser 2001 for example is also known to accept Colecovision and Atari cartridges through a special extension. The Hanimex Pencil II was also supposed to accept Colecov...
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 GEM GEM 1000 Junior Computer / Charlemagne 999
A quite little strange computer, which appeared under different designs...
The original model seems to be the Rabbit Computer RX83 announced at the 1983 CES. It looks like the computer was produced in Hong-Kong and then proposed to several companies in the rest of the world to market the computer under their own brand.
However no such computers have been found so far, maybe proving that the original company failed to produce the computer, or that it cancel...
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 SHARP X1-D (CZ-802C)
The X1-D is based on the Sharp X1.
The most famous and strong feature of the X1 series is Programmable Charactor Generator (PCG).
The X1-D has a 3" disk drive built-in instead of the tape recorder of the original X1 system. The X1-D lacks the tape interface remote control of the X1 serie, so most tape software couldn't be used with it.
This incompatibility with the others X1 systems was a big flaw, but a clever user (japanese of course) modified its X1D ...
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 PHILIPS CD-i 210
The CD-i 210 was a stripped down version of the CD-i 220, lacking the chique opening door in front of the tray. Also, its FTD-display was slightly less sophisticated. Several versions of the CD-i 210 have been produced, each with minor differences (shell version, digital video cartridge compatibility model, CD loading mechanism version, etc). But the CD-i 210 is nowadays certainly the most common CD-i system found worldwide.
The CD-i 210 is thus part of the big CD-i family. CD-i is short for ...
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 NINTENDO Racing 112 (model CTG-CR112)
This original system from Nintendo offers car racing games. To move your car you use the steering wheel and gear shifter. This must have been impressive in 1978. Arcade game at home!
Two detachable paddles (dials) can also be used for two-players games, each player control his car with the dial, acceleration being automatic in two players games. Several switches on the control panel are used to select games and difficulty settings. Overall, 112 game combinations are possible, hence the name ...
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 SOLID STATE TECHNOLOGY Athena
Little is known about this obscure professional computer.
The Athena used a true multi-tasking OS that enabled single keystroke application switching. It also incorporated intelligent distributed multiprocessing into perpherial interfaces.
The machine and OS were developed by an MIT graduate and conceived by Solid State Technology from Boston. The Athena is based on a 8085 Intel chipset. Sold with a monochrome monitor and 5.25'' disk drives (320 KB each), it has also a printer (150 charact...
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 AXEL AX-25
This french computer has some IBM PC compatibility. It can read PC disks with a special software and has ISA expansion slots. But it's not a real PC compatible machine.
It is more powerful than its little brother, the AX-20. But historicaly, the AX-25 was conceived before the AX-20, though it was marketed later.
Two models were available : the AX-25A with two 5"1/4 disk drives and the AX-25B with one 5"1/4 disk drive and a hard disk (10 MB).
The disk capac...
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 SONY PlayStation 2
By the time the PS2 was released in 2000, the PlayStation brand was a household name. Selling well from launch, the PS2 was another success for Sony. Strong third party support and backwards compatability ensured a wide variety of games.
After release users reported a variety of problems including DVD playback and the infamous laser problem, where the machine was unable to read blue discs. This problem was so widespread that in America a class action law...
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ELECTRONICA CIP-03
A rather important (but as far as I''m aware, entirely obscure*) feature of the CIP03 was that it still contained a full 64K or RAM, besides the 16K ROM. Clearly, given the 64K address space, only 48K of that RAM remained accessible at runtime - but what most people didn''t seem to realize is that the low 16 of RAM remained accessible FOR WRITING during normal operation, with a D-latch at $I can''t remember which I/O address$ accessible to FLIP that, leaving now the ROM getting accessed for writing (LOL) and the RAM FOR READING, instead of the EPROM. So basically all you had to do was "copy the first 16K onto itself" first, changing whatever you didn''t like about the original BASIC, then flip the latch and bingo you were running your "improved OS".
Which worked wonders for me in fixing the notoriously broken Spectrum NMI vector - now I could run my code any time at the click of a button in a way that was impossible to interfere with in software: basically, a "cheat POKE" user''s wet dream. It was bloody GLORIOUS. Later at some point the same trick worked like magic to transfer code from a CIP03 to an emulator on a PC via a custom, jury-rigged expansion port -$ LPT1 connection: at any point you wished, you pressed the button hooked up to the NMI pin, the CIP froze in place (running my pre-loaded glue code) and transferred the full contents of the upper 48K to a companion Pascal program running on the PC that wrote it into an emulator file$ then you just loaded that file into an emulator, and watched your game un-freeze from the exact spot you stopped it at.
* upon discovery of this "feature", I obviously tried to inquire about it at the local Electronica service. The "WTF"-slash-"huh?" attitude of the staff was utterly priceless.
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SANDS 3000
It connects to your TV antenna socket to play 1 of 4 different pong games: tennis, hockey, squash (1 player) and squash (2 players). The player slider control are detachable from the main console. The console runs on 6 C-size batteries, or from a 9V external power supply (not included). I don''t have the UHF cable, but I think it''s just a standard TV aerial cable.
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SANDS 3000
Actually, I''ve just found out that it was around 1977 that it was bought.
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SANDS 3000
I''ve got a Sands 3000 in its original box with instructions which was bought in the early to mid 70''s. Its been in the box since the 80s so it is in very good condition indeed. Anyone want to buy it?
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ATARI 1400 XL
The Atari 1400XL and 1450XLD was featured in the Antic Magazine Buyers Guide for christmas (December) 1983. Page 84.
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 game - eat them all - maze
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application - paint program
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game - cavemen - kart - racing
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game - 3d - gravity - shoot them up - space
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game - 3d - beat 'em up
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game - dinosaurs - lightgun - prehistory - shooting gallery
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game - hockey - sport
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game - ball and paddle - sport - tennis
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game - shoot them up - vector graphics
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game - duck - hunting - lightgun
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game - adventure - text interface
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