Nostalgia
Those were the days, when you still personally knew each and every bit of your computer's operating system... And a new computer was of course shipped together with a programming manual and a circuit diagram!
Booties and pickings
Currently, my small collection of 80s' microcomputers encompasses:
- An Apple II Europlus with 2 disk drives, a green CRT monitor and a serial interface card
- An Apple IIe (enhanced) with 2 disk drives, an amber CRT monitor, 80 columns card, parallel and serial interface cards, an A2Pico, A2DVI card and two paddles
- An Atari ST1040
- A Commodore Amiga 2000 with GVP Impact A2000-030 Combo (22 MHz version), 2 MB SupraRAM 2000 and SupraDrive 2000 WordSync SCSI interface + HDD
- A Commodore PET/CBM 3032 with SD2PET cartridge and (provisionally) a Datasette 1530
- A VIC20 with Final Expansion 3 cartridge and a 1541 disk drive
- A number of of Commodore 64s (brown and beige) with various 1541 disk drives, all at variying degrees of functionalit. Additionally, a 1701 color monitor, a 1541 Ultimate-II, an ActionReplay cartdidge, a Simons' Basic cartdidge, a Koala Pad and a hand full of joystics.
- A Commodore 128 with various accessories (not properly catalogued yet).
- An Olivetti M21
- A Schneider (= German retail version of Amstrad) CPC464 with color monitor and disk drive
- A Sharp MZ-80A (assembled from two broken devices)
- A TI 99/4A with speech synthesizer, peripheral expansion unit, 32kB-RAM expansion, RS232-interface and floppy disk drive.
- A Sinclair XZ Spectrum with audio casette recorder
Anyone wanting to treat me? I'm still looking for...