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Retrotech is really just a bunch of old and interesting stuff I have ;) - computers and appliances which are unusual, 'historically important', or just kicking around my house.

Stuff to be photographed and written up, this is just random, really.

Computers: (items in red/bold are available as trade or sale. Green means you can have it if you collect it and it's going to a good (i.e., you're not going to just stick it on eBay) home, but prefer to trade for something, even minor).

This collection now represents Jennifer & my own collections, and will require further editing/correction to be accurate!

1. Apple //e (1982)
2. 1. Cirtech 80 column card
   2. Duodisk drives
   3. AlphaSyntauri with 61-key Velocity Sensitive controller, rebuilt with new bushes.
3. Apple Mac 128 (M0001-P) (1984)
   1. Mac 128 restoration continues with Plus parts. Need 128/512 logic board though.
   2. Pending: Short keyboard, 400K External drive
4. Apple Mac Plus Beige x 2.5 (thanks to Phil Taylor, author of BarFly) (1985)
   1. Additional hardware includes HD20SC
   2. HD40SC
   3. Apple SCSI CD-ROM
   4. Apple CD300e x 2
   5. Apple CD600e housing with generic SCSI CD-ROM
5. Apple Mac Plus number 2
6. Apple Mac Plus number 3
7. Apple //e 'almost enhanced' (1984)
   1. Mysterious combination of 65C02 and enhanced motherboard, but has old ROMs installed and no '65C02' logo on the power light.
   2. Cirtech 80 column card
8. Apple //e enhanced (65C02) (1986)
   1. Strange unbranded 3 x AY sound chip card
   2. 'Manufactured' //e enhanced, not upgraded //e, suggesting a late sale for the UK.
   3. Transwarp II
   4. Cirtech Flipper 1Mb RAM card
   5. Workstation card
9. Apple Mac SE running AppleShare 2.0 and 105Mb HD (1988)
10. Apple Mac SE/30, HD expired (second Sony 40Mb I've had die on me) (1989)
11. Apple Mac Classic (1990)
12. Apple IIgs ROM 01 (1986)
    1. Bitsa made from parts left over from system below - Motherboard, PSU and the old (original) case.
13. Apple IIgs ROM 03 5Mb (1989)
    1. Transwarp GS accelleration - with latest-model WDC 65C816SPL-14, requires new crystal for 14MHz operation (currently 7MHz) (1989)
    2. Apple joystick
    3. 4Mb GarberStreet upgrade board (2004)
    4. Applied Engineering Audio Animator (1989)
    5. 3.5 and 5.25" drives
    6. RAMFast Rev. D SCSI card (256K Cache, waiting for 1Mbx4 DRAMs
    7. Acorn Multimedia Expansion Unit with 160Mb HD and Apple CD300e installed.
    8. Commodore 1084SD2 monitor with home-made cable.
    9. 'Woz' Limited Edition case
14. Apple Mac LC III running AppleShare 3.0 (1993)
15. Apple Mac LC475 (various machines) (1993/4)
16. Apple Mac Quadra 700 now in component form.
17. Apple Mac Quadra (Centris 950 - has FPU-less 68LC040 from Mystic now!) 950 (1993)
18. Apple Mac WGS95 in need of Pisces board 156Mb RAM (For AU/X) (1993)
19. Apple Newton 110
20. Apple PowerMac 6400/200 (For BeOS) (1997)
    1. 80Mb RAM (16+64), 10Gb HD
    2. TV/Video card
    3. CommSlot II 10BaseT ethernet
21. Apple PowerMac 6500/250
22. Apple PowerMac G3 233 slab
23. Apple PowerMac G3 266AV
    1. Original G3 beige minitower with 768Mb RAM and A/V personality board
    2. 60Gb HD
    3. OS X 10.3.9 with full XCode and X11
    4. Sony CD-RW
    5. 3 x Firewire, 2 x USB, 1 x USB 2.0 ports
    6. Sonnet G4 500MHz ZIF upgrade
    7. Blue Power LED
    8. Main work fileserver, media server (iTunes via VNC to Airport Express), FTP server for older machines to connect to, print server.
24. Apple PowerMac G5 2.0GHz DP (2003)
    1. 2.5Gb RAM
    2. 2 x 160Gb S-ATA Seagate drives
    3. RME Hammerfall Multiface audio
    4. Apple Cinema Display LCD 20" (DVI)
    5. Apple Studio Display LCD 15"
    6. Apple DVI to ADC adaptor
    7. iPod 60Gb (Video, black)
    8. iSight
    9. Airport Express base station in cinema room for 'piped' music.
    10. Mighty Mouse
    11. Maxtor 300Gb exteral drive (FW800)
    12. Wacom Intuos2 A4 Platinum tablet
25. Apple PowerBook G4 1.25GHz 15" SuperDrive (2004)
    1. (originally a 12" 1GHz, Apple very kindly replaced it with this one after attempts to repair it, and stock shortages, resulted in no laptop for six weeks)
    2. Standard 512Mb, fibre-optic keyboard, Airport etc.
    3. MacMice BT
26. Atari 800XL
27. Atari 1040 STE (1988)
    1. SM124 mono monitor
    2. SF354 External Floppy
    3. Philips CM8833 Mk II monitor
    4. SpectreGCR Macintosh Emulator cartridge
    5. 4Mb RAM
    6. Jaguar game controller
28. Cambridge Z88
29. Cobalt Qube 2700D
30. Cobalt Raq 4i
31. Commodore 64C x 3 "Night Moves" pack (boxed)
    1. Prophet64 Music Software
    2. Django MIDI interface (2006)
    3. Waiting for/looking for disk drive (1541-II)
32. Commodore Amiga 600s
33. Commodore Amiga 1200s (sort of, scattered around in bits)
34. Dell Precision 410 dual PIII-450 (1998)
    1. Originally dual PII-400. On board SCSI
    2. 64Mb Radeon graphics card - it was good in 2001!
    3. 18.2Gb. Old faithful and owned from new, but it began flaking out seriously in 2003. Still slogging away.
35. Dell Dimension PIV 2.4GHz something or other.
36. Dragon 32
37. Enterprise 128 x 2
38. HP 320LX Handheld PC
39. HTC Universal (Orange SPV M5000) SmartPhone (WM6)
40. HTC Athena (T-Mobile Ameo) SmartPhone (WM5)
41. ICL One-Per-Desk with 3 monitor variants
42. Jupiter ACE, in need of repairs
43. Microdigital TK2000 II - Brazilian Apple II/MPF-II clone looks like Atari 1200XL (1984)
44. NeXT Mono Station (1992)
    1. 32Mb RAM
    2. 405Mb HD
    3. NeXTStep 2.1, FrameMaker, Adobe Illustrator, Fonts, non ADB Keyboard & Mouse
    4. Megapixel Display N4000A (still bright!)
    5. NeXT Laser Printer
45. NeXT Color Station (1992 - pre Turbo board)
    1. 32Mb RAM (Maximum for this revision)
    2. 405Mb HD
    3. NeXTStep 3.2
    4. NeXTStep 3.3 boxed
    5. Non ADB keyboard, mouse and soundbox
    6. Megapixel 17" Color display (faulty)
    7. NeXT Laser Printer
46. Sharp PC1211 Pocket Computer with printer (1980 - first true pocket computer)
47. Sharp MZ80K (1979) - needs repairs
48. Sinclair QL (JM) x 3 (1984)
    1. Miracle Super Gold Card - 2Mb RAM, 68020 CPU
    2. Cumana dual HD 3.5" disk drive
    3. Miracle dual 3.5" disk drive
    4. all feet, both MDVs work, new membrane fitted
    5. CUB monitor and cable
    6. Manual, technical manual, service manual
49. Sinclair ZX81 x 2, one with rubber keys.
50. Sinclair Spectrum 48K
51. Sinclair Spectrum 48K Plus
52. Sinclair Spectrum 128K Plus
53. Sinclair ZX Spectrium +2 (Grey, 1986)
    1. Not functional :(
54. Sinclair Spectrum +2A
55. Sinclair Spectrum +3 x 3
56. Sun SparcStation 1 (1988)
57. Tandy (Radio Shack) 64K Colour Computer 2
    1. The first computer I was ever given, though not the same example or definitely correct spec.
    2. Birthday 1983 (I think), I was given a Tandy CoCo 2, having been given the TV for Christmas to use as a monitor. The CoCo failed after a couple of weeks, if that - I don't remember really using it at all - and I was given a Spectrum 48K(later killed by my father installing it in a DK 'Tronics case) and replaced with a 48K+
    3. This one is a 64K with Extended Basic, Model 3127B (no Lower Case). I'd like games/disk interface/joystick for it.
    4. Has thermal printer and analogue joystick (boxed)
58. Texas Instruments TI99/4a
    1. Speech Synthesizer
    2. Joysticks
    3. Adventure game
    4. Some sort of PacMan clone
59. Toshiba HX-10 MSX (1983)
60. Yamaha CX5M
    1. YK-20 keyboard
    2. SFG-05 module
    3. YRM-502 FM Voicing II program

Some of these aren't all that retro. The G5 replaced a G4, the eMac replaced a Dell PC after I finally gave up on Windows and discovered (via the G4) that OS X is brilliant, Macs are once again fantastic machines, and the mid 90s Performas were really just a blip.

Consoles:

1. Atari XE VGS (1987)
2. CBS ColecoVision with Atari module and 4 games (1983)
3. Nintendo GameBoy (Original 1989)
4. Nintendo GameBoy Colour
5. Nintendo NES
6. Nintendo Wii (January 2007)
7. Nintendo DS Lite (January 2007)
8. Sega Multimega (1994)
9. Sega Dreamcast (1998)
10. Microsoft xBox (1.6) with Xecuter 3CE and X3CP mods, wireless network and XBMC (December 2004)
11. Microsoft xBox 360 Elite (August 2007)
12. Sony Playstation Portable
13. Sony Playstation (PSX) x 3 (1994)
14. Sony Playstation 3 (April 2007)

8-bit and pre ARM Acorns:

1. BBC Master 128 (1986)
   1. Usual Master monitor and drives
   2. Music 5000 with AMPLE ROM
   3. Music 500 (can this be used as a 3000 expander, I wonder...)
   4. Music 4000
   5. Music 2000
2. Various other Bs in stages of repair. (1983)
3. Acorn Electron with Plus 3 Disk drive
4. BBC Master Compact
5. Torch Z80 HDP. Not sure what it should be called, but it's basically a beast that closely resembles a 1970s terminal, with a floppy drive and ST-506 HD, BBC B Iss. 7, Z80 co-pro board and some 'glue' hardware, colour display hardware and external PSU. (1984ish)

Archimedes range:

1. A310 - have model upgraded to ARM 3 and 4MB with IDE and RO3, thanks to Dave Plowman (1988)
2. A310 with Arthur ROMs and dual floppy drives
3. Assorted A440/A410 examples
4. A410/1 - have model upgraded to ARM 3, 4MB and RO3 (1990)
5. A3000 - the first computer I chose and bought for myself, currently have a replacement machine with Cub 3000 monitor, IDE and 4Mb upgrade. (plus a second A3000 from Richard Green that is in lovely condition). (1989)
6. A3020
7. A5000, early revision - 4Mb/100Mb HD, 25MHz. With MEU, Ethernet, digitiser, AKF-18 and fire extinguisher to hand - thanks to Peter Verdance. (1993/4)
8. 2 x untested A5000s
9. Acorn RiscPC 600

Toys:

• Bigtrak (1979?)
• Speak & Spell (1978, but membrane keyboard so 1980)
• Speak & Read (1980)

Electronics:

• Motorola International 3300 GSM 'Brick' phone. This phone looks totally, utterly 1980s, but is fully functional on modern GSM networks. (1994) - this is an interesting comparison to the almost contemporary Marco, which is a Newton-based Wireless PDA from 1995.
• Motorola MicroTAC phone (analogue, Canadian) (1994)
• Ever Ready Type N 1957 portable valve radio
• Sanyo Ghetto Blaster (again, pure 80s)
• Allen & Heath Inpulse One drum machine, one of a handful surviving. Written up in August 2004 Sound On Sound Retrozone. (1983-5)

• Apple IIgs RGB Color Monitor (UK spec, NOT the Mac 12" colour display which isn't compatible).
• Apple Macintosh Portable
• Alpha Syntauri components - anything relating to music hardware on early computers is of interest.

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