I am but a humble and poor collector, but have managed to snag a few
tiny gems out of the mounds of dirt.
Tandy Color Computer (and related) stuff:
TRS-80 Color Computer -- Original silver case, upgraded to 64K from the
original 4K. My first computer.
TRS-80 Color Computer 2 -- one or two of these
TRS-80 Color Computer 3 -- three of these. One repackaged into a mini tower
case with 512K, XT keyboard interface, DISTO Super Controller II (no halt)
with 4-in-1 board, Adaptec SCSI-> ST506 (or whatever) MFM adaptor, 40M
Seagate hard drive, 2 720K 3.5", 1 360K 5.25" floppy drives, homebrew
Y-cable and card cage for DISTO stuff plus Radio Shack RS-232 card. This
machine also has a Hitachi 63C09EP and Burke&Burke's Powerboost patches
applied to OS-9 LII. (No, not MacOS version 9! Microware should sue!)
1 Frank Hogg Labs TC-9 Tomcat w/ 1M RAM (CoCo 3 descendant. Currently in
not particularly good working order.)
1 Blackhawk MM/1 (OS-9/68000 Not quite 10 years old, but I think they were
designed in 1990.)
1 '386 PC (pieced together from whatever junk I had lying around at the
time) running OS-9/x86 (AKA OS-9000)
[vaguely related because it has a 6809:]
2 Motorola Microsystems Micromodule 17 boards. (Some day I'm going to put
OS-9 LI on one of those just for giggles. I also have about 3 6802 based
CPU boards from CMS that use the same bus.)
Assorted CoCo peripherals and gadgets, including the touch pad and a DS-69
Digisector video digitizer.
Commodore/Amiga Stuff:
1 Commodore 64 with Enhancer 2000 Disk Drive
1 Commodore Amiga 1000 w/ DKB 2M RAM/RTC board.
1 Commodore Amiga 500 (512K, I think) (The Amigas work fine, but they have
to share my CoCo 3 CM-8 monitor. People who get rid of Amigas for prices I
can afford (like free) tend to keep the monitors to use as TVs with their
VCR tuners.)
[I actually bought the A1000 used for $300, probably 9 or 10 years ago and
upgraded it with the DKB board. The rest I got for free.]
Apple Stuff:
3 Apple ][c (1 is broken. I recently got 1 apple color composite monitor.)
1 (presumed broken) motherboard for a Mac 128K
1 Mac Plus 1Mb (bad power board)
[listed for completeness, but not strictly on topic:]
1 Performa 636
2 Performa 6116CD (60Mhz PPC 601. One has a bad power supply and no heinous
video cable)
[I bought the now nonfunctional ][c from a friend (along with an amber
monitor) for $100 years ago. The rest I got for free. I had to buy a
keyboard and mouse and build a VGA adapticator thingie for the 636, my first
working Mac system. The 6116es actually came with keyboards, mice, monitors
and everything.)
CP/M Stuff:
2 Epson HX-40 ROM-based CP/M laptops (labelled "MagicBox". Really cute
little gadgets)
1 Kaypro 4
1 Osborne
1 Morrow Micro Decision with a Televideo terminal
[I think I paid $30 for the Osborne with a bunch of disks, and about $5 each
for the HX-40s. The rest were free.]
Other old micros:
1 TRS-80 Model 3 with a TRS-80 daisy wheel printer.
1 TRS-80 Model 100 with a nifty hard briefcase.
1 Timex/Sinclair 1000 (Repackaged into some kind of replacement enclosure
which includes a real keyboard. This computer has a whole raft of things
plugged one-into-the-other off the expansion port, including a (16K?) RAM
expansion, a printer interface hooked up to a little Timex thermal roll
printer, and an Atari joystick interface. This all came in a box with a
bunch of programs on cassette.)
2 TI-99/4A (no peripherals but a couple joysticks and a bunch of games on
cartridge.)
[All free]
Game consoles:
2 Atari VCS (obligatory. They were free.)
1 Odyssey 2 (with a few games. I may have gotten this at a thrift store for
a couple bucks. I don't remember.)
PCs, IBM compatibles, etc:
More IBM PCs and XTs than I can count. Someday I'll assemble a couple
representative systems.
A number of compatibles, 8088s and a few '286es.
[I don't have a genuine IBM AT though.]
1 IBM PCjr with monitor and printer.
4 or 5 Tandy 1000s with maybe 1 or 2 representative Tandy monitors among
them.
1 Tandy 1000HD (with bad HD)
1 Tandy [something or other] '286 system.
1 Tandy 3000 (386DX/16 (currently with Evergreen '486 DLC upgrade). This
system runs my Universal Device Programmer (MCT EMUP))
2 Compaq Portable (luggable, 8088)
1 Compaq Portable (similar, but 80286)
Several Texas Instruments PCs. (8086, I believe. Run MS-DOS but not really
IBM compatible. Some of these are luggables similar to the old Compaqs. I
have a fair amount of software and documentation for these machines.)
Loads of other unremarkable PC clone hardware. People have been giving me
'486es lately.
Several Zenith SuperSport'286 laptops, one of which runs my homebuilt CNC
drill press
[I think I paid $10 for an IBM PC system once, years ago. Most of the rest
of the above stuff was free.]
Newer systems, not really on topic:
1 IBM POWERstation 355. AIX (Not yet 10 years old, but apparently now
incapable of designing aircraft parts. When I compile PCB on it though, I
expect it will do a more than passable job of helping me lay out PC boards.)
1 Pentium-166, 64M RAM running Linux (currently RedHat 6.2. Scabbed
together out of mostly free parts. The motherboard and CPU came my way at
no cost because it was too slow. Works just great for me. I think I paid
for the RAM and one of the hard drives.)
1 Cyrix M2 PR300 128M RAM running MS-Windows 95 (What can I say, I have a
soft spot for flight sim games, and Microprose disn't see fit to port
European Air War to Linux. Hey, at least I haven't allowed Bill to waste my
time, money, and system resources even further by succombing to the pressure
to "upgrade" to Windows 98.)
[Okay, so I actually paid some money for these machines -- but absolutely as
little as possible, I promise!]
--
Joel Ewy
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Received on Wed Apr 11 2001 - 13:45:22 BST