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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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 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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 OLIVETTI Prodest PC 128
The Prodest PC-128 was a rebadged and slightly redesigned version of the French Thomson MO6
Apart from case design touching up, technical features was the same as the MO6.
This machine seems having been sold in very small quantity in Italy.
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 LOBO DRIVES INTERNATIONAL MAX-80
Max-80 has been, along with the LNW-80, one of the two major Tandy TRS-80 Mod. III compatible computers.
It could run LDOS TRS-80 software three times faster. Nevertheless numerous internal differences made it incompatible as far as hardware was concerned: serial and parallel ports, disk interface and no tape connector.
The system also ran CP/M operating system. the early versions were
shipped with 2.2 version, next ones wit...
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 RADIO SHACK TV Scoreboard (handheld)
This is a handheld pong! Everything is contained in one handheld controller. The second controller can be mounted onto the main one, or detaches (it has a 2' cord). The system has an attached RF cable (no switchbox).
This particular model comes with a pistol for use with target games, which has its own cord and plugs into the main unit at the top.
There are two different models. One with 4 pong games, and another one with 2 additional shooting games sold with a lightgun. For this reason, t...
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 OSM COMPUTER CORPORATION Zeus 3X
OSM Computer Corporation, based in Santa Clara California, produced several multi-user CP/M computers called Zeus.
The Zeus 3X was released in 1983, and is a natural follow-up of previous systems: Zeus, Zeus II, Zeus 3. The Zeus 3X was available as the same time as the Zeus 4, in which it differs in some features (more users, more memory, tape drive, real time clock, etc.) making it more suited for larger companies.
The OSM Z...
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 ALPHA MICRO 1000 Series
The Alpha Micro 1000 was a line of systems based on the 68000 microprocessor. According to customer requests, each system could be configured from a single user microcomputer with 128 KB of RAM, up to a 60-users system with 3 MB of RAM and 2.4 GB of disk storage.
The operating system of the 1000 series was AMOS, a multi-user, multi-tasking and timesharing system allowing the user to easily add terminals and printers to the current configuration. Several programming languages were available to...
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 HANIMEX 666
This is a handheld pong. The biggest paddle includes the system hardware. The second one wich is smaller (1/3 of the system size) is attached to the first one but can be detached. Thus, this is a real portable and easy to carry pong system.
The 666s and 666t seem to be similar in every ways apart from their color: the 666s is blue while the 666t is green.
Note that there is a french version of the 666s called the 666s-p (P for PAL ?) while the 666s-n is the eng...
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 S.H.G. Black Point (FS-1003/FS-2000)
This is a typical system using catridges based on the different chipsets developped by General Instruments in the late 70s. Each GI chips was able to generate several games, ball games for a start, then later car racing, motorcycle, submarines, tanks and shooting games.
The system has two detachable controllers with one analog joystick and one fire button each. The control panel is composed of 10 buttons to select the different games offered by each cartridge (10 being the maximum). Difficult...
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 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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 TELENOVA Compis
The Telenova Compis computer was designed to be used in swedish schools. It featured a 80186 cpu and used CP/M 86.
The name "compis" would be a synthesis of the word Computer and the swedish word
"kompis", meaning Buddy or mate. It was also a shorting for 'computer i skolan' (computer in school).
The Compis was called Scandis in Norway.
There was a small speaker in the keyboard. On the later models (Compis II) the network identity and other setup-data of the computer were also sto...
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 ELECTRONIC PRODUCT ASS. EPA-6800
Virtually no information about this classic training board made in San Diego, California, and mainly used for educational purpose. Like most of the 6800 based systems of the time, the board was equipped with an Exorciser bus connector as well as its own expansion connector....
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IMSAI VDP 80
I had one of these 2nd hand and it was solid as a rock. The PerSci 277 drives were much faster than 5-1/4" floppies and the MPU-B board functioned well. Came with WordStar, CBASIC and PL/1. ALL Documentation also. Did have to recalibrate the PDS eventually.
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TANDY RADIO SHACK 1000 SL & SL/2
I have my Tandy from long ago. It’s a 1000SL/2. It’s doing well, but very noisy. So I’m going to have to oil the fan at some point.
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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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 game - space - star trek
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game - racing - space
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game - eat them all - maze - pac-man
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game - ball and paddle - basketball - football - hockey - sport - squash - tennis
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game - card game - casino - poker
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game - shoot them up
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game - skiing - snowboarding
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game - boxing - sport
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game - bmx - skateboarding - surfing
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game - isometric 3d - shoot them up
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game - robot - shoot them up
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game - Thomas, the tank engine - train
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game - car - racing
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game - 3d - 3d (real) - roller coaster - vector graphics
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game - space
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