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How many WORKING computers do you have?

Hi
Al is local here in the South Bay area ( Sunnyvale, ca ).
He and Bob R. are big on saving these larger machines.
Al also is great for old documents as well.
Dwight
 
Hi here is my list.

*Apple IIe Enchanced - 8mhz, 1meg ram, applecat, unidisk controller, disk II clones, 3.5" mac floppies, mono monitor
Apple IIe - microsoft cp/m, disk IIs, 1meg, rf modulator
Apple IIgs Rom1

C= 64 (for eprom burning) and Vic-20 with 1541s and tape drives
C= Pet 4032 w/ 4022 printer and 4040 drive
Amiga 500

TS1000

*Mac Plus, IIcx, IIx, Classic II, PM6500, *PB5300
Newton 110,120, *2000 w/ 2100 upgrade, *emate

* used with any sort of regularity, mainly programming.
 
About 50.

About 50.

Well, I have been collecting old Macs for some time, but just got a nostalgia bug for OS/2, so I figure I might as well collect IBMs, too. :D Last week, I absolutely SCORED. IBM Personal Computer Power Series, aka, the PowerPC desktop. It had Windows NT 4.0/PPC on it, but I found a copy of OS/2 PPC, and have been attempting to get that loaded. (This computer is an odd beast, requiring a boot loader partition be re-created whenever you install a new OS, but the boot loader is *NOT* part of the OS! It is OS independent and needs to come from a special boot loader floppy, but you need to do this EVERY time you install a new OS. The drive in this computer appears to be dead, so I have to dig up a new floppy drive. I mean, come on, in all my crap, I don't have a single standard-issue 3.5" 1.4 MB floppy drive?!?! I've got drawers of old SCSI hard drives and 30, 72, 168, and even a few 64-pin SIMMs, yet no floppy drive?)

So my collection of 'vintage' computers is currently:

Macintoshes (about 10 of these aren't functional, but I don't recall which ones!):
Mac Plus, SE, SE SuperDrive, SE/30, Classic, Color Classic II
Mac II, IIx, IIci, IIfx, IIsi
LC, LC III
Centris: 610, 650
Quadra: 605, 610, 660AV, 700 (x2)
Performa 6116CD
Power Mac: 6100 DOS Compatible, 7100/66 (x2,) 7100/80AV (x2), 8100/110, 8500, 7200, 7500, 7300, 7600, G3 DT, G3 MT, B&W G3 (x2)
iMac G3: Bondi 233, Graphite 700
eMac 1.25 GHz
Portable (Backlit)
PowerBook: 100, 140, 180, 520c, 520c w/ PPC upgrade, Duo 230, Duo 2300c, 5300c (x3), 5300ce, G3 (Lombard,) G4 (12", 867 MHz)
iBook G3 (original 'Tangerine' 300 MHz)
MacBook Pro (original Core Duo 2.0 GHz.)

IBMs:
PC XT (Technically it's still my dad's, as it was our first computer back in the '80s, but I think it's pretty much mine now, after all, when we got the 486 when I was in high school, this old XT with Hercules graphics went into my bedroom for surfing green-scale porn over a 2400 baud modem. :p )
PC AT (My EGA monitor died last year, and while this EGA card has two RCA jacks on it, apparently neither one is composite out, even when I put the DIP switches in CGA mode. Acquiring the PPC gave me the motivation to try to figure out this EGA card, hence my other forum post.)
PC Power Series 830 (described above)
PS/2 Model 77 (486, XGA-2)
PS/2 Model P70 (386, I've had this one since 1992. It's one of the 'luggable's with a plasma screen. Unfortunately, it appears to have a dead motherboard, I'm just including it for completeness.)

Other:
VIC-20

Random old electronic crap:
Clone 'Pong'-style console from the mid '70s.
Intellivision with 52 games, and an IntelliVoice module.
 
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Fully tested I have:

Acorn Electron
Acorn BBC Model B
Acorn Archimedes A3000
Atari 2600 (yes its a console I know !!)
Atari 800XL (1050 disk drive)
Atari 520STfm
Amstrad CPC464 (colour monitor and floppy drive)
Amstrad NC100
Apple iie (with monitor and twin floppy drives)
C64
Vic-20
Amiga 500
Pet 8096-SK (8050 Dual disk drive)
Dragon 32
Mattel Aquarius
Memotech MTX512
Oric 1
Oric Atmos
ZX80
ZX81
ZX Spectrum
ZX Spectrum+
ZX Spectrum 128
ZX Spectrum +2
ZX Spectrum +3
Timex TI99/4A
Timex Sinclair TS1000
Tandy Colour Computer
 
This thread was fun, and I thought I would update everyone on my vintage collection.

I still have my Apple IIc, AT&T 6300, and the motherboard of my Tandy 2100. I dumped the case due to space issues. I have since added and subtracted multiple PCs from the collection, but it was all for the best. I have a Macintosh Classic II which I use for it's ClarisWorks database(access) program to keep track of the computers I have lurking beneath my bed, in the garage, and in my closet. The good ones are still in use around the house, for doing finances and being used as gateways to more valuable things, like files off of my server. I also have an Atari 65XE now, which I bought at a thrift store for next to nothing. No PSU, which is why I want to sell it. I will soon be aquiring a Packard Bell Legend 486, which is a one owner system with all of the manuals and disks it came with. I have a Pentium 1 Toshiba laptop that will be vintage in a few years, but that is all I can tell you without going off topic. I still have 2 of the 4 AT&Ts I started with, and one other that is on its second owner, me. One AT&T is in a coma due to mobo troubles. Pics to come when I am at home, after school.

--Ryan
 
I must take issue with the assumption of this thread that only collectors who have "working" computers have valid ones. Unless you have a large bank account and can afford to buy pristine machines you undoubtably fail the test. Most of us have acquired computers from binsters, garage sales, thrift shops, or other sources. Part of the kick we get from these finds is repairing them, finding programs and Operating Systems and learning how they work, whether from the internet or other sources. When that is done most of us lose interest and don't exploit the hard-won capabilities of the computer

I know in my own case, after finding a curbside DEC Rainbow in the early 90s it took me 8 years before I found a DEC cable which would support a DEC monitor, (which I acquired 4 years later) and learned a hell-of-a-lot about the machine in the in-between. Had I the funds I could have short-circuited that quest by many years. Part of the challenge.

And of course many computers develop faults such as drying capacitors or HD "stricktion" even after you have resurrected them, and are no longer "working".

I have an Epson HQ-10,( one of the most appealing physical-design computers ever. IMHO) which when I put the Epson HQ-10 CP/M disk in appears to boot up and look for a monitor and K-brd. Is that a "working" computer. Many of my collection of course I forget what the entry must be on a forgotten OS. Is that a "working computer" ? Unless you also have the OS manual or boot disk, most computers before the consolidation of MSDOS are not "working", untill it displays on a monitor. "Working" is not a criteria for serious collectors.
Which is also not an excuse to collect dead computer cases. Form without content.

It is of course a criteria for the wealthy or occasional dillettant "collector" who knows little about the guts of the machine and focuses on a particular platform he/she experienced when young, or simply wants to be known as a "serious collector" to insist that it be "working". A trophy like the head of a lion to an aged hunter retired from Africa to England or a young European Lord trying to legitamize his status for personal gain. I don't accept that criteria. If they were definitely dead, I would have discarded them or saved them for "parts"

Lawrence
 
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My working computer collection is somewhat small, but anyway, here is what I have:

I am curently owning the following computer systems:

MOS 65SC02 (~3.6MHz) "Atari Lynx II" Handheld console gaming device
ZiLOG Z80 (15MHz) "Texas Instruments 84 Plus Silver Edition" Graph Calculator
Intel 486SX (25MHz) Destop PC (assembled from scratch by a local PC store)
Intel 486DX4 (100MHz) "Compaq Contura 430C" Laptop PC
Intel Pentium Pro (150MHz - 200MHz) "Compaq DeskPro" Desktop PC
Intel Celeron (533MHz) "Fujitsu Siemens Trend" Desktop PC

I am curently borrowing the following computer systems:

Intel 8088 (4.77MHz) "IBM PC/XT Model 5160" Desktop PC
Ricoh 2A07 (1.66MHz) "Nintendo Entertainement System" Console gaming device
 
Of the as-of-today's-date 287 mixed (videogame, computer, robotic) "systems" I have, it's easier to list the ones that definitely don't work as they're supposed to (I hope to fix at least some of them or trade/give them to someone who can make them work):

- C-128 (physically damaged keyboard)
- Commodore SuperPET (SP9000) - Working, but missing second CPU
- Heathkit H8 (I recently replaced the missing CPU card for this, but unfortunately it still has a bad power supply)
- MBR Control Dynamics S-100 Bus Chassis (unpopulated, unknown function)
- Philips CDI 220 (bad CD drive)
- Spectravideo SV-328 (SVI version, partial function in keyboard)
- TeleGames Personal Arcade DINA 2 in One (no power supply - does not work with superficially compatible ones)
- Tandy TRS-80 Model III (no CRT, memory chips removed)
- Timex Sinclair 2068 (does not start properly)
- VideoBrain Family Computer Model 101 (does not function)
- Worlds of Wonder Action Max (bad gun, bad accessories)

There may be a few others as I have not as of yet fully tested everything. When I do that, I typically do it for "real", including full inventory and some type of written and photographic coverage.
 
I've been collecting older Macs for a while, but over the last 4 or 5 years, I've started getting into Apple //s as well. I grew up with the Apple // in the 80's, so it's a bit of a nostalgia thing for me.

I've got the following in various states of repair/operation:
-Apple //e (with duodisk and Monitor //, 10MB Sider, Applecat and other assorted toys)
-Apple //GS Upgrade (//GS in //e case)
-Apple //c+
-Apple Mac Plus upgrades (originally 128k, upgraded to Mac Plus), I think I have 3 of these
-Macintosh Color Classic (Mystic) I've also got the original logic board for this with an Apple //e card, so it's great for transferring software from the net to disks for the Apple //s.
-Macintosh SE/30 with Micron xCeed greyscale and color cards (sort of the holy grail of compact macs), Daystar accelerator and ethernet. This is a custom hack I built over several years. Took a while to figure out how to split the PDS slot and make an adapter to hold 3 cards inside the SE/30 case. It's pretty cool to be able to do greyscale on the internal screen and color on an external monitor on this little Mac. I've used it to surf the net with Netscape 3 and play MUDs, just to see if it would work. :)

I've been collecting upgrade/peripherals for the Apple // series to go with my vintage systems. I've managed to find a Sider 10MB hard drive in the box with manuals, software, etc. I also have a Vulcan internal hard drive in one of the //e's. I've got several other Applied engineering parts, including Ramfactor cards, Ramcharger battery backups and a PC Transporter that I'm currently working on.

I'm also putting together a //c system for my daughter to play with. I've tracked down some fun pre-k software and it works great as a learning tool hooked up to the TV.

The other platform I'll probably start playing with is the Amiga. I had a model 2000 back in college, and I really enjoyed it.
 
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heh. my working computer collection includes just a few computers, both vintage and non-vintage.

Gateway2000 4SX-33 (10 Oct 1993 date code)
Upgraded it to a 486DX2-66 from an SX-33
200MB Hard drive, DOS 6.22/Windows for Workgroups 3.11
CD Drive, Working 3.5" floppy
20MB RAM, added 1MB in VRAM chips to the video slots onboard
--Is on the internet as of last week, waiting for a program to set it up as a webserver. :p

PC Chips M599LMR K6-2/500AFX board, no PSU/CD/HDD/anything yet. hopefully a fileserver in the near future

Dell Dimension 8200 P4 2.53 (Currently offline for the fact that more RAM is needed to boost the speed up to 2.53 ((RDRAM SUCKS :mad: )) and for other reasons I wish not to disclose.)

IBM Thinkpad 380XD (1997-ish?) :confused:
got it at a yard sale for $5 a year and a half ago. loaded it up with 98, it was a greagt computer. 3GB drive, P233MMX, but the drive never had a lot of space and the CD cable kept coming loose. It now runs NT4 SP6.1a (is that the right one?) and is used for small amounts of music and some Word document writing.

and my PRIDE AND JOY. :D

My Dell Optiplex GX110. http://www.flickr.com/photos/21675590@N00/2013411702/ <--old picture of it from two months ago
Pentium III 1Ghz (up from a 667 to a 700 to an 866 all in one day)
120GB Hard drive (was two 10GB drives when I got it... Partitions rock.)
CD-RW writer, 16x Dual-Layer DVD writer (Pioneer brand) and a 5.25" drive for show and write.

Also has a TV tuner card, a Creative ES1371 PCI card, a coupla Ethernet cards and a USB 2.0 addon card which gives me my Wireless access and faster writings to my iPod Shuffle 2G and my External drive.

all in all, it's a great machine, but it needs more storage. I'm going to replace one of the ethernet cards with either an IDE/SATA card and get a bigger drive for more storage onboard. I don't think I'm going to be getting rid of this anytime soon.

oh yeah and I have a Fujitsu Stylistic ST4110 Tablet PC
(800Mhz PIII-M w/XP Tablet and a 20GB drive. Great machine too.)
 
Well, I guess I need to chime in on this one...

(1) Kaypro II
(1) Kaypro 2x
(2) Kaypro 10/83 - both with ST-251-1's and '84 V3.4 TurboROMs, CP/M 2.2G + TROM
(1) Kaypro 10/84 - ST-251-1 and '84 V3.4 TurboROM, Kaypro-88 256k, CP/M 2.2G + TROM
(1) Kaypro 4/84 - KayPLUS V1.2 ROM, SWP Co-Power-88 128kb CP/M 2.2G + KayPLUS
(1) Kaypro 1
(2) Kaypro 16's
(1) Kaypro 16-2
(1) Altos 5-5AD MP/M-II - 1 FDD, 1 5MB HD
(1) Altos ACS-8000 - dual 8" FDD's
(1) Osborne Exec - external video only. 2nd broken unit
(2) Osborne 1's
(3) Osborne 1A's
(1) Corona Portable PC
(3) Columbia Portable PC's
(1) Compaq Portable
(1) Compaq Portable II
(2) IBM 5150 PC's
(2) T/S 1000's
(2) Tandy CoCo3's - both 512K, one rigged out - SCSI drive, etc..
(2) Tandy CoCo2's
(1) Tandy MC-10 Micro CoCo
(1) Tandy 1000TX
(1) Epson PX-8 Geneva, 120kb RAMDisk
(1) NEC PC-8201a, 64kb RAM ( 2 x 32kb banks)
(1) Tandy M102 - 32kb
(1) TRS-80 M100 - 32kb
(2) TRS-80 Model 4P - 1 w/ 128kb, dual FDD. Second is parts (working) unit
(1) TI 74 BasiCalc w/ 8K RAM cartridge, printer
(1) TI CC-40 with HexBus printer
(2) TI 99/4a's - 1 black/silver, 1 beige
(2) Commodore 64's
(2) Commodore 128's
(1) Commodore 16
(1) Commodore VIC-20
(1) Commodore Plus/4
(1) Commodore 8032
(1) DEC AXPpci-based computer (200MHz, OpenVMS 7.x I think)
(1) Sun AXi-based computer (on the shelf, in parts, but works. it's in queue!)


And that's just off the top of my head....got a few more scattered around, and at least 2 dozen I haven't tested yet, and doesn't count what's been sold or will be sold!


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