I was brought up with 8 bit. Started off with the ZX81, moved to the Spectrum, Atari ST for music sequencing then the Amiga. Sold everything back in the day though. Now I collect and restore as a little personal hobby. A Nostalgic pastime
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Hi all, from Solihull, West Midlands. Erm, got a few Ataris in the collection, 520STE, STF, STFM x3, 65XE, 2600 x2, 2600 Jr x2, 7800, 800XL x2 along with a couple of 1050 external drives. That's roughly all my Atari bits excluding commodore and everything else. Somewhere around 84 computers and 41 consoles collected and no more space!
I was brought up with 8 bit. Started off with the ZX81, moved to the Spectrum, Atari ST for music sequencing then the Amiga. Sold everything back in the day though. Now I collect and restore as a little personal hobby. A Nostalgic pastime.
I was brought up with 8 bit. Started off with the ZX81, moved to the Spectrum, Atari ST for music sequencing then the Amiga. Sold everything back in the day though. Now I collect and restore as a little personal hobby. A Nostalgic pastime
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retrocomputercollector wrote: Fri Aug 19, 2022 8:47 pm Hi all, from Solihull, West Midlands. Erm, got a few Ataris in the collection, 520STE, STF, STFM x3, 65XE, 2600 x2, 2600 Jr x2, 7800, 800XL x2 along with a couple of 1050 external drives. That's roughly all my Atari bits excluding commodore and everything else. Somewhere around 84 computers and 41 consoles collected and no more space!
I was brought up with 8 bit. Started off with the ZX81, moved to the Spectrum, Atari ST for music sequencing then the Amiga. Sold everything back in the day though. Now I collect and restore as a little personal hobby. A Nostalgic pastime
Sounds not dissimilar to my own collection and reasons for collecting
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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I think a lot of us here are in a similar vein.
retrocomputercollector wrote: Fri Aug 19, 2022 8:47 pm Now I collect and restore as a little personal hobby. A Nostalgic pastime
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Welcome to the forum!
Quite a collection - possibly giving @rubber_jonnie some competition there?
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Now now, we're all in this togetherJezC wrote: Fri Aug 19, 2022 9:50 pm
Welcome to the forum!
Quite a collection - possibly giving @rubber_jonnie some competition there?
Collector of many retro things!
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
800XL and 65XE both with Ultimate1MB,VBXL/XE & PokeyMax, SIDE3, SDrive Max, 2x 1010 cassette, 2x 1050 one with Happy mod, 3x 2600 Jr, 7800 and Lynx II
Approx 20 STs, including a 520 STM, 520 STFMs, 3x Mega ST, MSTE & 2x 32 Mhz boosted STEs
Plus the rest, totalling around 50 machines including a QL, 3x BBC Model B, Electron, Spectrums, ZX81 etc...
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Too true! I just need the time (and money) to finish off the repairs & refurb to most of my collection - definitely time to concentrate on what I have & finish off some of the long-standing projects before starting to do the same on the synth collection - some of those are as old as my original 1040 STF now (dating back to early 1987).
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Intro retro computers since before they were retro...
ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
Collection now with added Macs, Amigas, Suns and Acorns.
ZX81->Spectrum->Memotech MTX->Sinclair QL->520STM->BBC Micro->TT030->PCs & Sun Workstations.
Added code to the MiNT kernel (still there the last time I checked) + put together MiNTOS.
Collection now with added Macs, Amigas, Suns and Acorns.