Re: How many vintage computers have you got?
Posted: Mon Jan 28, 2013 5:43 pm
Here's my haul of older kit (anything with an * I was given):
8 bit
Sharp PC 1500*
NEC PC8201A*
32/24/16 bit
Amiga 600 (a later non HDD variant which came with a nice collection of software)
MITEK 386DX25* with maths co-pro(Dos/PCGeos box)
Olivete PCS 40 SX/25* (486SX25* -no hdd at the moment. The mobo has VESA slots so may transplant the mobo in a more suitable case so I can make use of the VESA video and multi i/o card I have. Candidate upgrading to a Kingston OD processor or DX2/50-DX2/66)
Generic 486DX2/50(Dos/wfw)
DECpc V+ 425 with 486DX2/66 cpu (OS/2 v3 Warp Connect)
Compaq CDS 524 all-in-one with 486DX/66 (Dos plus whatever I can throw at it. Will be throwing the WFW add-on plus TCP update)
Acer 486DX2/66 (originally had a DX2/50 in it-Pure dos box)
RiscPC 600 x 2 (one has an A700 card and Risc OS 4.32 and the other standard with 3.4 roms and PC card)
RiscPC 700 (2 slice wth scsi podule, otherwise standard setup)
RiscPC Stongarm x 2 (one will be scrapped as the mobo has issues but has 4.02 roms, decent sized hdd and 2meg vram to transfer to another machine)
Basicly plenty to keep me happy. I'm leaning more to Acorn stuff these days. Also have a later machines from an IBM celery 400 with Windows 98 Gold on up to XP boxes but I spend most of my quality time primarily on the 3/486s and RiscPCs.
I've got couple super socket 7* machines to test out larger drives before attacking them with DDO software. One will most likely become an OS/2 v4 box. Lots of ISA cards spare, socket 7/ss7 mobos/PCI peripherals( learnt a lesson from tossing out good ISA cards in another life), a few 17"CRTs(generally can't stand anything smaller-the cds 524 being the exception of course) and some RiscPC spares. Have a 286 board but for some reason it dumps the serial ports after being switched on for a while. I'm holding on to that in case the onboard ram comes in handy for something else. Got given an Intergraph TD-310 pentium pro and attempted to get some SUN boxen but the TM seller disappeared off the face of the planet with my dosh. That's left a bitter taste.
Plenty of manuals and the full set, including binders, of INPUT magizine. I also collect PC OS sets from around 1990 on up to early 2000s, have a few older LInux retail packs. My dedicated Linux box is a slimline HP with P200mmx cpu.
Almost forgot there's a discarded Dell at work I've been meaning to bring home. It literally has some real large bugs in it......
8 bit
Sharp PC 1500*
NEC PC8201A*
32/24/16 bit
Amiga 600 (a later non HDD variant which came with a nice collection of software)
MITEK 386DX25* with maths co-pro(Dos/PCGeos box)
Olivete PCS 40 SX/25* (486SX25* -no hdd at the moment. The mobo has VESA slots so may transplant the mobo in a more suitable case so I can make use of the VESA video and multi i/o card I have. Candidate upgrading to a Kingston OD processor or DX2/50-DX2/66)
Generic 486DX2/50(Dos/wfw)
DECpc V+ 425 with 486DX2/66 cpu (OS/2 v3 Warp Connect)
Compaq CDS 524 all-in-one with 486DX/66 (Dos plus whatever I can throw at it. Will be throwing the WFW add-on plus TCP update)
Acer 486DX2/66 (originally had a DX2/50 in it-Pure dos box)
RiscPC 600 x 2 (one has an A700 card and Risc OS 4.32 and the other standard with 3.4 roms and PC card)
RiscPC 700 (2 slice wth scsi podule, otherwise standard setup)
RiscPC Stongarm x 2 (one will be scrapped as the mobo has issues but has 4.02 roms, decent sized hdd and 2meg vram to transfer to another machine)
Basicly plenty to keep me happy. I'm leaning more to Acorn stuff these days. Also have a later machines from an IBM celery 400 with Windows 98 Gold on up to XP boxes but I spend most of my quality time primarily on the 3/486s and RiscPCs.
I've got couple super socket 7* machines to test out larger drives before attacking them with DDO software. One will most likely become an OS/2 v4 box. Lots of ISA cards spare, socket 7/ss7 mobos/PCI peripherals( learnt a lesson from tossing out good ISA cards in another life), a few 17"CRTs(generally can't stand anything smaller-the cds 524 being the exception of course) and some RiscPC spares. Have a 286 board but for some reason it dumps the serial ports after being switched on for a while. I'm holding on to that in case the onboard ram comes in handy for something else. Got given an Intergraph TD-310 pentium pro and attempted to get some SUN boxen but the TM seller disappeared off the face of the planet with my dosh. That's left a bitter taste.
Plenty of manuals and the full set, including binders, of INPUT magizine. I also collect PC OS sets from around 1990 on up to early 2000s, have a few older LInux retail packs. My dedicated Linux box is a slimline HP with P200mmx cpu.
Almost forgot there's a discarded Dell at work I've been meaning to bring home. It literally has some real large bugs in it......