Very nice @Akagi and I hope some of that gets put to good use. I remember having a zip drive when I was at college as it saved having to bring everything in on about 20 floppy disks! I was saving up for a Jaz drive at the time as the college had just upgraded to those on a few machines but then Cd-rw took off and the rest is history, as they say!
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Big haul @Akagi I had a Black Widow scanner, the model number looks familiar. That Compaq keyboard looks cool.
Ah I don't actually have the scanner, I did later throw out the manuals such as that one for things which it turned out weren't in the boxes.
I didn't even know Jaz drives existed until I got this one!
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Great to see the haul above @Akagi. Thanks for sharing.
I've moved house! As you can imagine for a 'retro collector' the amount of 'stuff' I've collected over the years required a lot of moving.
Over the next few months, I hope to get my collection more orderly and start doing useful things with it.
The original plan was to have a garden office, but I've 'temporarily' moved in to a 'study', larger than my previous one. It just gets better and better.
I'm chuffed as well. We're in a house out in nowhere and we have Gigaclear Fibre broadband. Happy days.
My first plan of action is get the 386 SX 25 Mhz up and runing again. The case needs some fettling.
I've moved house! As you can imagine for a 'retro collector' the amount of 'stuff' I've collected over the years required a lot of moving.
Over the next few months, I hope to get my collection more orderly and start doing useful things with it.
The original plan was to have a garden office, but I've 'temporarily' moved in to a 'study', larger than my previous one. It just gets better and better.
I'm chuffed as well. We're in a house out in nowhere and we have Gigaclear Fibre broadband. Happy days.
My first plan of action is get the 386 SX 25 Mhz up and runing again. The case needs some fettling.
Caporegime
Great to see the haul above @Akagi. Thanks for sharing.
I've moved house! As you can imagine for a 'retro collector' the amount of 'stuff' I've collected over the years required a lot of moving.
Over the next few months, I hope to get my collection more orderly and start doing useful things with it.
The original plan was to have a garden office, but I've 'temporarily' moved in to a 'study', larger than my previous one. It just gets better and better.
I'm chuffed as well. We're in a house out in nowhere and we have Gigaclear Fibre broadband. Happy days.
My first plan of action is get the 386 SX 25 Mhz up and runing again. The case needs some fettling.
I am in a similar situation, or at least I will be soon, we moved house a couple of years ago, and since then I have collected a lot of items, and now we are building an extension which will house an office and storage and other bits.
Currently all my retro gear is in various rooms, in cupboards, on shelves, in the loft.... It will all need to be consolidated. And I need to decide how to store all my motherboards and graphics cards and things.
I sorted out some retro stuff today and fired up my GBA SP, but man the screen is awful, don't remember it being this bad back then. Not sure if due to age of the screen or just HD memory kicking in again.
Had fun introducing my daughter to the 3D effect on the 3DS and enjoyed a bit of Mario Kart and 3D Outrun.
Don't think Wii U counts as retro yet but managed to find the gamepad charger eventually and get it hooked up for a bit of Smash Bros with the same daughter.
Also dug out my PSP, have been worried about this for some time as was concerned about the battery... it had expanded a lot. Man it's a noisy little system with the UMD going and not a great screen either. I really loved the Wipeout games on PSP but think I will stoick to 4X resolution on the Odin 2.
Had fun introducing my daughter to the 3D effect on the 3DS and enjoyed a bit of Mario Kart and 3D Outrun.
Don't think Wii U counts as retro yet but managed to find the gamepad charger eventually and get it hooked up for a bit of Smash Bros with the same daughter.
Also dug out my PSP, have been worried about this for some time as was concerned about the battery... it had expanded a lot. Man it's a noisy little system with the UMD going and not a great screen either. I really loved the Wipeout games on PSP but think I will stoick to 4X resolution on the Odin 2.
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Hmmm do I fancy a trip to the Isle Of Wight…
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are there any DOS versions of AutoCAD there? (i think UK copies required a hardware lock dongle thought)Picked up a few bits from a friend of a friend who was clearing out. I took home a whole car full of stuff because it was already packed up, but it turned out to be 60% chaff.
Here is what I kept out of it:
Couple of S7 boards, loaded with RAM, I think one has a P166 and one has a P200. Shame they don't have coast slots, but you can't have it all.
Another S7 board which must have come from some kind of network device. Not sure what I'd do with it, but it was just above the "throw this away" line
No idea what the chip is, the heatsink is thermal glued to it. Probably a WinChip or something.
This Pentium D equipped Asus small business server. I thought the case might be interesting to mod.
There was a Macintosh Performa 630, but it was in such horrific shape and missing the front facia and all of the rear plastics, that I decided to gut it so I can sell the component parts.
Boxed ZIP drive, and a ZIP interface card thingy, and a TV card:
A few more bits...
Of note, a JAZ drive with one disk which may be a bit of a time capsule!
If anyone wants an old copy of AutoCAD I can hook you up...
And then this lot. Nothing particularly special here sadly, but the tape drives and the 5.25" floppy drive are nice to have, as well as some very old SCSI drives. A lot of that may end up in my Compaq Prosignia.
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Yeah there are some there.
I think the 5.25 floppies with the blue labels are, 4 disks per copy.
I'm not sure if the ones with the red labels are autocad, or just autocad utilities, and I'm not certain what the 3.5 floppies are for.
Some of the disks have serials printed on the labels, so I'm not sure if they need hardware keys.
Replaced the battery in my GBA SP.
It had the original from new and I'm surprised it hadn't leaked, to be honest it didn't even look particuarly swollen.
Not sure if it's the age of the device that's impacted the screen but I don't remember it looking this poor, but I'm chalking that up to me remembering it in HD
Mario Kart still rocks!
It had the original from new and I'm surprised it hadn't leaked, to be honest it didn't even look particuarly swollen.
Not sure if it's the age of the device that's impacted the screen but I don't remember it looking this poor, but I'm chalking that up to me remembering it in HD
Mario Kart still rocks!
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The early front-lit GBA SP screen is kinda bad, my Tribal is the same, I could have sworn it was better...
But it is better than the unlit screen on my original black GBA...
Picked up an iMac G3 slot loader in indigo blue, with original Pro keyboard and mouse, original books (sadly water damaged), unopened accessories, and even the original Apple stickers. For free!
It is in pretty good condition, a few little marks here and there, but it has clearly been quite well looked after.
It has a 500MHz CPU and 320MB of RAM. Running OS 10.3.9 Panther. Being a 500 it should be able to run 10.4.11 Tiger (and with some finangling it could probably run 10.5.8 Leopard) but I might re-install the original OS 9.1 for the nostalgia. I think that would be what it originally had.
But it is better than the unlit screen on my original black GBA...
Picked up an iMac G3 slot loader in indigo blue, with original Pro keyboard and mouse, original books (sadly water damaged), unopened accessories, and even the original Apple stickers. For free!
It is in pretty good condition, a few little marks here and there, but it has clearly been quite well looked after.
It has a 500MHz CPU and 320MB of RAM. Running OS 10.3.9 Panther. Being a 500 it should be able to run 10.4.11 Tiger (and with some finangling it could probably run 10.5.8 Leopard) but I might re-install the original OS 9.1 for the nostalgia. I think that would be what it originally had.
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Fired up my Vita for the first time in about 8 years (at least according to the activity tracking).
Lovely bit of kit, although the right stick seems to be dodgy and not moving correctly. Don't recall ever having an issue with it before but might have to look into a replacement.
Lovely bit of kit, although the right stick seems to be dodgy and not moving correctly. Don't recall ever having an issue with it before but might have to look into a replacement.
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Our highschool used to use these. A whole room filled with about 20 imacs in various colours was a sight to see. My favourite thing about highschool honestly. Probably one of the most iconic designs of PC.The early front-lit GBA SP screen is kinda bad, my Tribal is the same, I could have sworn it was better...
But it is better than the unlit screen on my original black GBA...
Picked up an iMac G3 slot loader in indigo blue, with original Pro keyboard and mouse, original books (sadly water damaged), unopened accessories, and even the original Apple stickers. For free!
It is in pretty good condition, a few little marks here and there, but it has clearly been quite well looked after.
It has a 500MHz CPU and 320MB of RAM. Running OS 10.3.9 Panther. Being a 500 it should be able to run 10.4.11 Tiger (and with some finangling it could probably run 10.5.8 Leopard) but I might re-install the original OS 9.1 for the nostalgia. I think that would be what it originally had.
This turned up in the post today. Nice double sided bookmark that came with it!
Was always a ZX Spectrum teenager, but couldn't help but sit and listen in envy when my brother was on his C64. Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway and Ben Daglish (rip) soundtracks were just epic.
Was always a ZX Spectrum teenager, but couldn't help but sit and listen in envy when my brother was on his C64. Rob Hubbard, Martin Galway and Ben Daglish (rip) soundtracks were just epic.
Picked up this lovely Lian Li PC-7F off ebay for a very reasonable price. case is in great condition, and came with all the face plates and accessories. Been after on of these for a while now for my Pentium 4 machine, and now i finally have one!
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I picked up some retro royalty today!
Another Apple II EuroPlus, but this one has an Apple PAL encoder card. If you know you know! A very rare add-on card to give you colour video in regions that use PAL.
The machine itself is also near mint just like my other one, but this one sadly has the non mechanical keyboard.
Also, an Apple Monitor III and the stand that goes over the computer, both extremely difficult to find in the UK, I don't think they were officially sold here at all.
It is a little bit strange that it had a colour video card and a mono monitor.
I also picked up an IBM PS/2 Model 30 286 and an IBM PS/2 colour display, sadly no keyboard or mouse, would have loved a nice Model M.
They also came with an Olivetti electric typewriter in its original carry case (will sell that, not particularly interested!) and a boxed iMac G5 (ditto for that)
Pics will follow somewhen!
I also (seperately) bought my childhood PC, a Packard Bell Multimedia Pulsar, which has a Pentium MMX 233 in it, another nice surprise when I took the heatsink off! My first 233. I believe my one had a 166 back in the day, so it might get swapped for a 166 for accuracy and the 233 might end up in the woodgrain.
Another Apple II EuroPlus, but this one has an Apple PAL encoder card. If you know you know! A very rare add-on card to give you colour video in regions that use PAL.
The machine itself is also near mint just like my other one, but this one sadly has the non mechanical keyboard.
Also, an Apple Monitor III and the stand that goes over the computer, both extremely difficult to find in the UK, I don't think they were officially sold here at all.
It is a little bit strange that it had a colour video card and a mono monitor.
I also picked up an IBM PS/2 Model 30 286 and an IBM PS/2 colour display, sadly no keyboard or mouse, would have loved a nice Model M.
They also came with an Olivetti electric typewriter in its original carry case (will sell that, not particularly interested!) and a boxed iMac G5 (ditto for that)
Pics will follow somewhen!
I also (seperately) bought my childhood PC, a Packard Bell Multimedia Pulsar, which has a Pentium MMX 233 in it, another nice surprise when I took the heatsink off! My first 233. I believe my one had a 166 back in the day, so it might get swapped for a 166 for accuracy and the 233 might end up in the woodgrain.
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The IBM was pretty grubby beforehand, took a lot to get it this nice! Magic erasers are wonderful.
And then these which I don't particularly want but will try to sell to recoup some money:
Had to play Tetris to cram it all into my already cramped cupboards...
Oh right, and the childhood Packard Bell socket 7 system:
Which was also extremely grim when I picked it up...
Now taken apart for retrobrite... The first time I've tried it!
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Also, I know this is an extreme niche, but if anyone happens to know of an Apple II/II Plus/II EuroPlus Alps type keyboard for sale, please let me know. I really need one to replace the Datanetics keyboard in my original II.
Or possibly Datanetics DC-50 or DC-51-01 new old stock keyswitches.
And an IBM keyboard to suit the Model 30 pictured above, for a non obscene price...
Or possibly Datanetics DC-50 or DC-51-01 new old stock keyswitches.
And an IBM keyboard to suit the Model 30 pictured above, for a non obscene price...
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