sysadmindave
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Hi! I'm a new poster here, but have been lurking for awhile. I attended VCF SoCal earlier this year and was reenergized to look through my older machines again.
I seem to have amassed an interesting collection of computer equipment over the years without really trying to curate one.
Here's a list of the vintage computers I currently own, in no particular order:
I purchased a Bösendorfer 225SE piano last year- it was originally delivered in the late 1980s with the IBM XT/286 model 5162 as the dedicated controller computer, and that PC came to me with the piano. The inventor of those piano systems, Wayne Stahnke, used the Intellec MDS-800 to develop them starting in the mid-1970s. I have become friends with him over the years, and very recently he asked me if I would like to have his original development systems. I accepted his generous offer and picked up the MDS-800 and Multibus stuff about a week ago.
I seem to have amassed an interesting collection of computer equipment over the years without really trying to curate one.
Here's a list of the vintage computers I currently own, in no particular order:
- Mac 128k
- Includes General Computing Hyperdrive that I installed myself many years ago after finding the kit in a surplus sale sometime around 1990.
- Bought the computer new in 1984 through the Apple's University Consortium program with an ImageWriter- got rid of the printer but still have the computer
- Upgraded to 1M RAM, Mac Plus ROMs
- Analog board currently broken
- Mac 512k 'Fat Mac'
- Analog board currently broken
- IBM XT/286 model 5162 (second most recent acquisition)
- CPU unit only, but fully working and in like-new condition
- Amiga 3000 system
- Fully working, and pretty maxed out with addon cards & storage
- Dauphin DTR-1 tablet PC (386SX based, Windows 3.11)
- Intel Intellec MDS-800 system (my latest acquisition, details posted in the pre-Altair forum)
- Quite a number of Multibus cards and accessories
- Winchester Systems 5M HD
- Many handhelds
- Sharp PC-1500 (the first computer I owned)
- A selection of HP calculators/handhelds
- 16C
- 15
- 41C
- 71
- 75D
- 28
- 48SX
- 48GX
- 49
- 49G
- 50G
- Assorted other less important calculators
- HP-95LX
- HP-200LX (2)
- A number of Palm devices starting with the Palm III and ending with the LifeDrive
- Sharp Zaurus 5500 (Linux handheld)
- Nokia 700 (Linux handheld)
- Various old PC clones and interesting parts from the 1990s
- Monster 3D 3DFX GPU
- Various high-end sound cards
- Wren WrenRunner HD (the first 1G HD for PCs and workstations, a full-height 5.25" unit)
- Pre-WiFi wireless networking PCMCIA cards
I purchased a Bösendorfer 225SE piano last year- it was originally delivered in the late 1980s with the IBM XT/286 model 5162 as the dedicated controller computer, and that PC came to me with the piano. The inventor of those piano systems, Wayne Stahnke, used the Intellec MDS-800 to develop them starting in the mid-1970s. I have become friends with him over the years, and very recently he asked me if I would like to have his original development systems. I accepted his generous offer and picked up the MDS-800 and Multibus stuff about a week ago.