My collection. Result of 12 years retrocomputer adventure.

[Sandisk78]

Hi to all from Moscow, Russia !)

In September, 2006 my friends were about to trash a Compaq Contura 430cx486 notebook they have found in the atticks and were sure it can't be used anymore in "modern world". I took it home - and realised then that "all that computers I dreamed of in my childhood and youth "can be found that way and maybe just gathering dust on somebody's atticks, garage or basement)
Now I have PC's from IBM 5150 to PIII's, Amiga 3000, 1989-1999 macs, Curta and good old 8-bit Kaypro-10. Here's howased on it looks at my place - I have long table for 4 vintage desktops on it, as well as place for my modern desktop. And the list of all my curent machines. In future hope to find C64, which is common, but I like it as a good 8 bit machine and soviet home computer BK11m, based on PDP-11 architecture). Of course I like good old games, then Photoshop, Corel Draw on 486-p1/macintosh Centris, learning Turbo Pascal 7.0 for dos (yes I know C is much better - hope to learn it, too). Also I try to take my computers to festivals, not only computer or retro related - to let people understand, realise that old computers are not junk - but product of human mind - as well as "oficial antiques", like 1914-1980 cars or 18-19 century watches...)






I. IBM compatible desktops/towers

01 IBM 5150 8088 4.7mhz
02 IBM 5170 286 6mhz
03 IBM PS/2 40sx 386SX
04 286/20 "AHEAD/AVGA104kb"
05 286/20
06 286/20
07 286/16 "ACU-MOS_VGA_512kb"
08 286/16 "HGA"
09 286/16 "EGA"
10 Digital Venturis 466 DX2-66
11 Digital LPV 486DX2-66
12 Digital /AMD/
13 Digital Starion 300i P1-75
14 Compaq Deskpro DX5-133
15 Compaq Deskpro P1-120
16 IBM Desktop P1
17 Mikro Mikko Ergo P1-75
18 Siemens Nixdorf P1-75
19 Dell XPS R400 PII-400/AGP
20 PIII Asus P3bf PIII-550mhz
21 P1 tower P1-166
22 PIII 1000mhz

II. IBM compatible notebooks, laptops...

23,24 Compaq Contura 430cx
25 Compaq Contura 410cx
26 Compaq Elite 486DX2-50
27 Dell P1
28 IBM Thinkpad 755CD
29 IBM Thinkpad 345c
30 Compaq Armada 1590DMT
31 Compaq Armada P1
32 Compaq Armada P1
33 Zenith p1-120
35 ZEnith 386sx
36 Texas Instruments
37 IBM Thinkpad E600
38 IBM Thinkpad T20
39 Compaq Armada M700
40 Goulipin 286 286/16/EGA

III Apple Macs



41 MacintoshIIci
42 LC III
43 Centris 650
44 PowerBook 3400
45 G3 PowerBook
45 Ibook Clamshell orange
46 8600/300
47 G3 tower (G4 ugrade)

IV "All "other" platforms" /

48 Kaypro 10(1983) Z80A/4mhz
49 Commodore Amiga 3000
50 Curta

 

[rpiguy2]

Great collection! Mine started much the same, rescuing one computer then realizing how cheap things were (they aren't so much anymore) and that I could have all those systems I read about.

 

[PeterNC]

Very nice to see that these machines are also preserved in Russia.

 

[Sandisk78]

Very nice to see that these machines are also pressia.

Well, there are many collections here, like mine. There's nothing special in macs/x86 stuff,Ataris' Amiga or C64 are common too. Kaypro 10 I bought in Europe - from the Netherlands, it has 220V PSU. The thing that is very rare here are all that Apple ][ family machines. The funny thing that Soviet Computers are a bit rare - I mean professional machines - as they were scrapped in big numbers in the 90's for gold and palladium, other valuable metals - which they contain a lot) Also I know some people having really interesting machines, like DEC VAX and so on - so here are many retrocollectors, too as in all the world ) Here also is a very cool museum of the Apple Company in Moscow, where all machines are working and can be used/touched by visitor) Also my friends have a soviet/block collection, housed in Yandex, our search engine company place ...