GAME : Identify the computer!

spudbynight · 4 Jun 2012 at 15:28

Housey said:
Vic 20 or C64?

Looks like a Vic 20 alright

SourChipmunk · 4 Jun 2012 at 16:58

Good call on the VIC20. C64 had two joystick ports.

Cool thread! I've only recognised 3 so far.

neodude · 4 Jun 2012 at 18:29

G-MAN2004 · 4 Jun 2012 at 18:40

I can't handle the geekiness.

Housey · 4 Jun 2012 at 18:43

neodude said:

Looks like an ST?

neodude · 4 Jun 2012 at 18:50

Housey said:
Looks like an ST?

Nope.

Housey · 4 Jun 2012 at 18:52

Hmmmm, Falcon?

neodude · 4 Jun 2012 at 18:53

Housey said:
Hmmmm, Falcon?

Bingo.

Housey · 4 Jun 2012 at 18:57

neodude said:
Bingo.

Housey · 4 Jun 2012 at 19:01

itno · 4 Jun 2012 at 19:51

One of the Lynx series of computers?

Housey · 4 Jun 2012 at 19:51

itno said:
One of the Lynx series of computers?

Camputers Lynx 64

itno · 4 Jun 2012 at 19:53

It was the grey case that gave it away. Someone else can have my go.

bitslice · 4 Jun 2012 at 21:03

Not a computer as such but an add on.
I don't think it ever got beyond prototype stage but it was years ahead of its time.

SourChipmunk · 11 Jun 2012 at 17:58

As this has been idle for a week with no good guesses on that one (waddisit??), I figured I'd post one.

NickPembs · 11 Jun 2012 at 18:10

Either the Sharp PC-1500 or the Tandy equivalent.

bitslice · 11 Jun 2012 at 18:19

SourChipmunk said:
As this has been idle for a week with no good guesses on that one (waddisit??)]

oh, disapponted

It was a Wafer Drive from Sinclair Research, basically they invented the SSD about twenty five years before it became a mass market item.

It only held around 0.5 Megabytes and was battery backed, but as a piece of technology it was groundbreaking.

SourChipmunk · 11 Jun 2012 at 20:34

NickPembs said:
Either the Sharp PC-1500 or the Tandy equivalent.

Close enough. That one is the PC-1211. Mine is still operational with all original documentation. It was great during my tech school days in the Army.

24 digit dot matrix LCD
Full QWERTY-style keyboard
Integrated beeper
Connector for printer and tape drive
Programmable in BASIC
Uses four MR44 1.35 V Mercury button cells
Battery life in excess of 200 hours
1424 program steps, 26 permanent variable locations (A-Z or A$-Z$) and 178 variables shared with program steps
Built out of off-the-shelf CMOS components, including SC43177/SC43178 processors at 256 kHz and three TC5514P 4 Kbit RAM modules

Accessories

CE-121 Cassette Interface

KatanaDV20 · 11 Jun 2012 at 21:00

spudbynight said:
Hello Overclockers....I want to play a little game. So far in your so called lives you have experienced many computers. But, can you go back in time and identify those machines you have forgotten?
Look at this image and identify the computer of yesteryear. Winner goes next.
Live or die - make your choice.

Haha! I like this, nice idea there OP