Computer Museum.oO(1950-1995)

[Aztec]

any of you remember these...???

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/name.asp?st=1&l=A

[jacobzcoool]

Not really, as I was born in 1990 :o

[neil.h]

What a cool thread.....

I remember my good old specy

zx (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=221)



now that brings back some good memorys :cool:



edit just lokking at the speed

3.5mhz....what a bad b oy hahaha

[Big Adam]

ZX Spectrum 128 (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=35)

I think mine is still in my parent's loft.

I spit on you lowly 48K folk. Feel the power of my 128K and it's dedicated "calculator" function. Gasp as I use the "tape tester" function to optimise the volume level of my Currys mono-tape player.

You are not worthy.

EDIT: Awww shoot. Who turned off the image function? :(

[neil.h]

hahahahahaha laughing my a** off :p

[Big Adam]

It scares me to think how expensive these things were, just to play "Daley Thompson's Super-test" with huuuuge sprites and (IIRC) 16 colours.

Only a 15min load time I seem to remember (providing it didn't crash-out halfway through)

[neil.h]

god yeah the load times argh....boy turn down the volume i dont wanna listen to that screeching!!!!


I also remember I had a book of code type things to make your own game......and id be sat there for hours upon hours punching in all these letters and numbers and symbols..........only for it not to work at the end :p

[Big Adam]

Beeeeeeeeeeeeee-beep!

(Pause)

Beeeeeeeeeeeeee-widdle-widdle-widdle-widdle.....

(continue ad-infinitum or until your Dad turned the TV channel over so he could watch the wrestling.

Typing you're own games was the WORST thing ever! Magazines printed pages and pages of code and, yep, one typo error and it would crash and burn and reset itself. Aaaaargh!

Ahhh, great days!

EDIT: Why do I suddenly feel old?

[Tami]

In the mid 80s I bought a computer with software for signwriting for $10,000, this was actually 40% OFF!
I marveled at the 40 MEG hard drive that was TWO 5 1/4 bays tall and had to be partitioned at 32 mb.
I had THREE meg of memory (108 - 256k chips on a full length board about 400 mill long)
A shiny new EGA monitor and Paradise EGA card (just out)
And a MOUSE (never seen one before)
All mounted in a 16 bit BLISTERING EIGHT mhz 286 with a licensed copy of dos 3.2 bundled with Anagraph Sign Design ($8,000 on its own)

I am still running this software on a p1 120 and it blows windows away for speed.

[Big Adam]

That sounds like a beast of a machine for the time. Signwriting must have paid well! :)

[neil.h]

I thought in your day you were still using chisel's :p :p how wrong i was :D

[Fatal1ty]

.... a licensed copy of dos 3.2 bundled with Anagraph Sign Design ($8,000 on its own) And we moan at the prices of software today :eek:

[jacobzcoool]

One thing to say:

:eek:

[SoapSud]

If you like that website, you'l want to meet a friend of mine. Him and his dad have many, many, many old computers.

[TazUk]

any of you remember these...???

Remember, I still own some of them :D

[Aztec]

in the past i have owned a, sinclair spectrum, oric1 48k, commodore 64, amstrad cpc464, quickshot games machine(bit like a gameboy of the 80s), commodore vic20, and a lot of those portable little game&watches, like the kong,munchman,scramble,crazy climber,snoopy tennis,mario bros, and loads others and still can remember all of them vividly.

the good old days where we didnt have to worry about cpu speeds, hundreds of pounds worth of gfx cards and memory and how big your widescreen monitor was, computing in those days was basic but still today i look back at those games as being better than anything today in a strange and sentimental sort of way...
http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://website.lineone.net/~lineup/st-games/images/grandstand-scramble-ralph.jpg&imgrefurl=http://website.lineone.net/~lineup/st-games/grandstand.html&h=495&w=452&sz=45&hl=en&start=1&tbnid=ALwO-iNeA9ktwM:&tbnh=127&tbnw=115&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dgrandstand%2Bscramble%26svnum%3D10%26 hl%3Den%26lr%3D

http://www.consolepassion.co.uk/tomy-handheld-games.htm

i still play on about 10 of the original grandstand and nintendo game&watches now, ive saved some of em from as far back as 1981 and a couple are still boxed as new

http://images.google.co.uk/imgres?imgurl=http://www.pixelpower.on.ca/supervision/quickshot-supervision.jpg&imgrefurl=http://www.pixelpower.on.ca/supervision/&h=637&w=385&sz=40&hl=en&start=3&tbnid=daBs4Hrt1Xy10M:&tbnh=135&tbnw=81&prev=/images%3Fq%3Dquickshot%2Bsupervision%26svnum%3D10% 26hl%3Den%26lr%3D

this site will bring back loads of gaming memoiries
http://www.gameinhand.net/7about_my_collection.html

download this its such a cool mario conversion for xp
http://www.acid-play.com/download/super-mario-3-mario-forever/

[jon bda]

Old PC's kicking about here at the moment.

Amiga 500 and 600
Amstrad CPC464 (or is it a 6128?, i'll have to look)
Atari 800XL
Atari 520STFM
Commodore 64 (original and C64 C)
Speccy 48k
Speccy 128K
Speccy +2

Theres prolly more lurking here somewhere...
:D

*EDIT*

Forgot the latest addition, a Philips Videopac G7000
:D

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Philips_Videopac_G7000.jpg/350px-Philips_Videopac_G7000.jpg

[TriggerHappy]

LEDs are the "graphics" in a way :eek:

[nicky munchkin]

thank god for progress
I remember acorn from reception class (4-5 years old) cool stuff.
I thought it was apple but I just saw ACORN and everything clicked in my head I remember vaguely a talking thing which said words like cat, dog, car etc, and you type the letters in the answer box.

I remember that but not where I left my keys:mad:

[Fatal1ty]

I remember that as well... When I was in primary school, we had a basic network printer. To print, you went to the end of the row and selected your computer number on the multiswith, then went to the printer and selected your row number. That way you would be the only one connected to the printer to print to the dot matrix..

I think they were ACORNs as well :p

[nicky munchkin]

We just had one computer per class (im goin back to around 1994-5)
it had its own printer. To print you had to press a button on the keyboard. I tried this years later when I was 9 or 10 and to my dismay it was actaully the print screen button. I dont think we had a computer room until I was in junior school- windows 95- oh no miss i performed an illeagal operation, help, help, wat shall I do, I dont want to got to jail... :D

Edit: I wish I was born earlier so I could have seen all the old systems. Then again in 15 years we'll all be thinkin oh what a load of rubbish my amd 4000+ with its 2 gig ram, 320 gig hdd and its 512 meg graphics card was. (I just made that up:D)

[bootup05]

Yeah, we'll all probably be using Quantums by then :D

[nicky munchkin]

Or install windows into our brains, wireless conection to the web. We'd be an intergrated part of internet explorer 23.:( doesn't bear thinking about.
We'd keep losing the wireless connection and our brain would not be able to synchronise with microsoft. They'd be angry. Our fate- worse than death.

[hylian_231]

I remember that as well... When I was in primary school, we had a basic network printer. To print, you went to the end of the row and selected your computer number on the multiswith, then went to the printer and selected your row number. That way you would be the only one connected to the printer to print to the dot matrix..

I think they were ACORNs as well :p

Don't be a hater of my current home network computers alright?

[Fatal1ty]

And they run CoD2? :eek: :eek: :eek: :D :D :cool:

[Shelley]

My bro had one of these BBC Acorn (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=29) :eek: he used to sit for hours typing endless streams of code into it just to make a little man jump once or something equally daft :D

And i can remember one of THESE (http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=989) at my Primary School, i didn't care about the marvels of the Domesday book though, i only cared about Care Bears and Sindy :D

And i know we have some old Amigas and Commodores kicking around here

[hylian_231]

And they run CoD2? :eek: :eek: :eek: :D :D :cool:

They sure do, it prints the screen through a dot matrix printer every .2 of a second, so I have to predict where to shoot etc, I have to write about 2000 lines of code just to make it walk forward, another 20000 to fire..

[DarkEntity]

I had my Amiga out and was enjoying Cannon Fodder :D

[Richard_b]

I had my Amiga out and was enjoying Cannon Fodder :D

Cannon Fodder has to be the best amiga game ever :D I used to spend hours on that ...

I still got 2 commodore 64's in attic and theres my old Amiga 600.

I remember you used to be able to buy amiga 600's in differnet colours (pink, blue i think) - i know this because i almost ended up with a pink one for xmas because everyone wanted one hehe ;)

[Aztec]

When i was at school (left in 1990) we used the link 480z machines, they were beasts for the time. also a great big winchester hard drive powering about 12 machines. i can remember some school kid bringing a sinclair zx spectrum 48k (the one with the rubber keys) into school and connecting it up through rf on a tv, god we thought he was from space it looked so advanced for the day. those lovely loading screens!

do you agree with me that the commodore 64 had the best sound chip on an 8bit machine?

[brumster]

*EDIT*

Forgot the latest addition, a Philips Videopac G7000
:D

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/thumb/8/80/Philips_Videopac_G7000.jpg/350px-Philips_Videopac_G7000.jpg

That was my first ever 'pooter.... nice ;)

[TheFallenAngel]

I had loadsa machines when I was a kiddie, like this one. I think I might still have it somewhere.
http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=26

[Cosmo_1847]

Not really, as I was born in 1990 :o

1989 here. You guys seem so old :p
*Runs*

[bootup05]

1991 here!
:(

[Cosmo_1847]

The MIT Whirlwind,
Height: 2 Stories
Weight: 7 tons

Dam thats a big computer.

[neil.h]

aww man

Was just looking on youtube at the old games i used to play and thought id check out the old website again......but its not working:(

[Slamdog]

1989 here. You guys seem so old :p
*Runs*

1991 here!
:(

youngsters....

1966....

I used to have a nascom 2...

and then a commodore pet...

some of the other stuff i've owned has been pretty obscure too.

[neil.h]

It is working now.


I keep getting, server not found:confused:

[liadbacklad]

1986 here and i thought i was young...

And theres me thinking you were all really imature for your age :p

[Trojan]

my first proper PC...Amstrad 1640

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/photos/amstrad_pc1640.jpg

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=19

still have the old CPU in a drawer somewhere ;)

[neil.h]

hmmm it's working now.....:cool: