Phase One Of The Retro Computers

[CoBoL~SPARTA~]

I have now placed a few of my retro machines in the pub on display, thought I would share some of the good old days with a few of you guys.

[CoBoL~SPARTA~]

These are all runners, I have a few more to add. Like some more BBC machines, A, B, Master, Archimedes, Commodore 64, 128, PET, Amiga 2000, 3000. Apple II, Apple SE, Apple. Dragon 64, Oric 16K, Spectrum 16k, Spectrum 128+, Einsteinian, MSX machines.

 

And a selection of consoles to put some where also. Ping Pong machine, Nintendo, Super NES, Sega,Sega Mega Drive.

[Halli~SPARTA~]

That is a great idea!!!

[custard~SPARTA~]

Very nice collection mate looks sweet

[Cylawyer~SPARTA~]

Awesome! A blast from the past, not all of which we had here in the states. A very nice collection.

[andrewman~SPARTA~]

awesome Cobol, that is a veritable museum of 8 bit machines, I loved identifying the ones I played with, Dragon32 Acorn....my first paid job was as a saturday boy working in a computer store where we had one for display and none to sell the customers ( I fell in lust with a Lynx at that time)

 

Your pub will become a mecca

[Athlon64~SPARTA~]

Some of those are collectior items now.

[Zathrus~SPARTA~]

I remember when those things were the cutting edge of technology... amazing how things change.

[BowtomePhil]

ZX80 wow Never seen one of them before, I only had zx81 and later.

 

I bought a dragon 32

 

and wrote the following

 

10 for x = 1 to 50

20 Print x

30 if x=20 then goto 60

40 next x

60 Print I have left the loop

 

As a test and it looped forever so I had to take it back

 

I go back to Pong, simple game and went on to own pong football, which was basically pong with 2 bats each.

Then we got pong with 16 games, normal pong one bat each, football 2 bats each, ice hockey 2 bats each (was basically football) , squash 1 bat each same side of screen, tennis which was basically pong, hockey(see football and ice hockey)

 

Best one I had back then was the motorbike jumping busses game.

I remember loading a 128k game from tape on the spectrum 128, took 15 minutes.

 

Wow old times indeed

Edited September 28, 2010 by BowtomePhil

[Steel~Sparta~]

I still have a Atari 400 and the Atari 410(tape drive)