hay people..
Ok im steve, i live in London UK, i first started of on computers many moons ago, think it was around 1980s excate yea i cant say, i do remeber buying my first BOXED Commodore rm a shop at around £125.which in them days was a lot of money.
In the past i did start collection differnt types of old 8bit computers. at 1 stage i had 16 Commodore C64 computer, differnt models,versions,ect i had 3 C63 GS systems 2 c128,2 C128D, MSX, Spectrums,ZX 81, ZX80(kit Forum), Acorns, BBC-B, Amstrads, Plus many other Computers.. When the first ever Commodore PC came out on the market for home use, i just had to get on, i even still have a piture of it here, it was a Commodore PC 8088 processor see image
This is not my image,but will post mine up when i get my scanner working.
My PC originaly had 1 5.25 floppy drive, i latter added a 2nd drive.
This is what then got me into future PCs.
The speck of the Commodore PC was
Later i added a bigger hard drive as mine only had 10-gig,hard drive i later upgraded to a massive 20-gig lol,and that cost me nearly £100,then when color monitors apeared on the marked i got one of them.
Had some good fun with this pc...
Most of my stuff was sold while i was youger as i meet someone and i had to sell it befor i moved out, i think i had most of my collection for about 6 years.
I still have some stuff which i kepted after moving, some i stored at my sisters house untill she moved then i had to bring it all to where i am now and i sold it off bit by bit.. the best bit of kit was the ZX80 which was kit for, but i had los the box, but was able to sell it for £65 in LOOT news paper some years back..
i once had a PC a little like the SX64 it had a small screen and a floppy drive, i did a little checking on this, and found i=out it was once a system used for some AIR propulsion i tried to get manuals,but was impossible, it was a US based PC that was brought over to the uk and later sold a my local Car Boot fair/Flea market. coz it was old i had no software for it, i couldnt use it, so i resold it for a mear £30, i think now today i could of got over £300 for it..
i think i have a real old IBM server behind some boxes, it has the old type internal . SCSI drives,not sure if it still works, one day i'll try dig it out.
Think i have some old 486 DX motherboards around still to.
Due to meeting the wife 15 years ago, i had to sell stuff to shut her up moaning about the computer stuff i had laying around, i even left some old PC and 8-bit stuff at my old address 4 years ago, some worked some didnt, had no where to store it when we moved, i bet the new oweners had fun clearing the stuff ..lol
Well now im into PCs ive build my own mostly , i went to a shop and asked if they would teach me how to build them, this was 6 years ago, since then ive built my own, im in the process of building a duo-core 4800+ amd system but keep having issues with the gigabyte motherboard not letting me into the bios, so 3 times now the motherboard has been sent back, now waiting for a replacment motherboard a Asus M/B ive given up with gigabyte boards..Hopefull i have that sorted and built next week, but i need cash to buy some decent Sata & IDE harddrive which i hope to do with the money i make in selling this Commodore stuff, i may even buy a built PC and keep the processor and memory and case i have here as spares..
Well think i shut up now...lol
i bet this is the biggest hello on this forum.lol,once i start i never shut up..lol
steve
Ok im steve, i live in London UK, i first started of on computers many moons ago, think it was around 1980s excate yea i cant say, i do remeber buying my first BOXED Commodore rm a shop at around £125.which in them days was a lot of money.
In the past i did start collection differnt types of old 8bit computers. at 1 stage i had 16 Commodore C64 computer, differnt models,versions,ect i had 3 C63 GS systems 2 c128,2 C128D, MSX, Spectrums,ZX 81, ZX80(kit Forum), Acorns, BBC-B, Amstrads, Plus many other Computers.. When the first ever Commodore PC came out on the market for home use, i just had to get on, i even still have a piture of it here, it was a Commodore PC 8088 processor see image
My PC originaly had 1 5.25 floppy drive, i latter added a 2nd drive.
This is what then got me into future PCs.
The speck of the Commodore PC was
Later i added a bigger hard drive as mine only had 10-gig,hard drive i later upgraded to a massive 20-gig lol,and that cost me nearly £100,then when color monitors apeared on the marked i got one of them.
Had some good fun with this pc...
Most of my stuff was sold while i was youger as i meet someone and i had to sell it befor i moved out, i think i had most of my collection for about 6 years.
I still have some stuff which i kepted after moving, some i stored at my sisters house untill she moved then i had to bring it all to where i am now and i sold it off bit by bit.. the best bit of kit was the ZX80 which was kit for, but i had los the box, but was able to sell it for £65 in LOOT news paper some years back..
i once had a PC a little like the SX64 it had a small screen and a floppy drive, i did a little checking on this, and found i=out it was once a system used for some AIR propulsion i tried to get manuals,but was impossible, it was a US based PC that was brought over to the uk and later sold a my local Car Boot fair/Flea market. coz it was old i had no software for it, i couldnt use it, so i resold it for a mear £30, i think now today i could of got over £300 for it..
i think i have a real old IBM server behind some boxes, it has the old type internal . SCSI drives,not sure if it still works, one day i'll try dig it out.
Think i have some old 486 DX motherboards around still to.
Due to meeting the wife 15 years ago, i had to sell stuff to shut her up moaning about the computer stuff i had laying around, i even left some old PC and 8-bit stuff at my old address 4 years ago, some worked some didnt, had no where to store it when we moved, i bet the new oweners had fun clearing the stuff ..lol
Well now im into PCs ive build my own mostly , i went to a shop and asked if they would teach me how to build them, this was 6 years ago, since then ive built my own, im in the process of building a duo-core 4800+ amd system but keep having issues with the gigabyte motherboard not letting me into the bios, so 3 times now the motherboard has been sent back, now waiting for a replacment motherboard a Asus M/B ive given up with gigabyte boards..Hopefull i have that sorted and built next week, but i need cash to buy some decent Sata & IDE harddrive which i hope to do with the money i make in selling this Commodore stuff, i may even buy a built PC and keep the processor and memory and case i have here as spares..
Well think i shut up now...lol
i bet this is the biggest hello on this forum.lol,once i start i never shut up..lol
steve