Any Vintage Computer Collectors here??

[c64man]

Any of you guys into vintage computers. 

I have a pretty large collection

I have the following

Commodore 64
Original Apple II
Mac 128k
Mac 512k
Mac SE, SE/30
Apple IIGS

NeXTStation Mono Slab
Sun SparcStation Cycle 5
AT&T 712

Couple of Wyse Terminals and other related goodies

[Dave F]

I have managed to hold onto a few items from the old days:

Mac SE

Two Rockwell AIM-65s

Qume QVT102 terminal

Three 33ASR teletypes, including one with a Carterphone modem and one with a Western Electric 113 Dataphone

DF

PS: Believe it or not, the Mac SE is still in use today!  My wife is a teacher, and she uses it to keep track of students' test scores and grades.

[WesternElectricBen]

No, I'm not much of a computer collector.

I have sold all my extra computers and am down to three from seven.

I had:

iMac G3
iMac Core 2 Duo
Dell optiplex GX270   
Dell optiplex GX620  (both not vtg. though not bad computers)

But I'm glad I only have my custom built computer, my mac, and a dell optiplex gx270 (xhausted1100 gave it to me)

Ben

[AE_Collector]

My daily driver is a Dell Optiplex GX520. Nothing older than that in use here. Still something out in the garage with a Celeron 300 processor in it that back in the day everyone liked to overclock the heck out of.

Terry

[Phonesrfun]

My first computer was a TI 99-4A, which I think I bought in 1979.  I even bought the expansion box for it so it had a disk drive and I think 256k of memory.  I also had the speech synthesizer, and it a spreadsheet cartridge.

I used a TTY 33 for a printer, and then upgraded to a dot matrix printer.

Years have gone by, and a few years ago my son bought me a used 99-4A at a garage sale.  (No expansion box)  That is the only relic I have, other than my current computer is about 7 years old.

The good old days of programming in Basic and I even did a few in the TI assembly language.  I think I did those just to prove I could.  Not something I stayed current with.

[twocvbloke]

I don't really collect them as such, but I have an Olivetti Pentium75 desktop, a Compaq LTE5300 (Pentium 133 I think) laptop, a Compaq Contura 4/25 laptop (486-25MHz), and a couple of Commodore Amiga A600s, the only other computers I have are my "daily drivers", my Toshiba Portege M300 laptop, my Pentium4 based media server (when I get round to connecting it up that is) and my AMD Athlon X2 3800 desktop used for games...

I also have a not quite vintage (but comes from a long-running line of the same model) Oki Microline 280 Elite (elite cos it has USB) dot matrix printer, which I did a video of for my friend over in texas, but thought I'd share it on the web anyway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3NkITEI3Jg

First part is how it does with images, 2nd is just showing how fast it can print text...

I think that was hooked up to the Olivetti for the text, cos the driver worked better under Windows98 rather than under XP which did the image printout...

[Bill]

Anyone interested in a Commodore VIC-20? I have one up at my camp in Maine (now closed for the winter), along with the Commodore later-model (beefed up) power supply, a bunch of game cartridges, a couple joysticks, and such-like. I don't know if I can get my 5-year old grandson to let go of it, but it might work out.

Bill

[xhausted110]

oldest thing I own is a PLC programmer from the 80's "portable", although my commodore 128 might be older. here's a video of the programmer:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ZEUGgzPZFg

[xhausted110]

I don't really collect them as such, but I have an Olivetti Pentium75 desktop, a Compaq LTE5300 (Pentium 133 I think) laptop, a Compaq Contura 4/25 laptop (486-25MHz), and a couple of Commodore Amiga A600s, the only other computers I have are my "daily drivers", my Toshiba Portege M300 laptop, my Pentium4 based media server (when I get round to connecting it up that is) and my AMD Athlon X2 3800 desktop used for games...

I also have a not quite vintage (but comes from a long-running line of the same model) Oki Microline 280 Elite (elite cos it has USB) dot matrix printer, which I did a video of for my friend over in texas, but thought I'd share it on the web anyway:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W3NkITEI3Jg

First part is how it does with images, 2nd is just showing how fast it can print text...

I think that was hooked up to the Olivetti for the text, cos the driver worked better under Windows98 rather than under XP which did the image printout...

I have a printer that looks a lot like that. a OKIDATA microline 184-turbo 9 pin. parallel only.

[twocvbloke]

I have a printer that looks a lot like that. a OKIDATA microline 184-turbo 9 pin. parallel only.

I almost bought one of those after I got my 280, it was 120v and came with a transformer too, but, I decided not to cos I didn't really need it...

Interesting thing to note though, British Telecom used a slightly altered Okidata Microline 182 for one of their line of computer printers, one of them features in The secret life of machines - The word processor:

http://youtu.be/nN9wNvEnn-Q?t=18m10s

Well worth watching from the beginning that one if you're into old computers...