Ask HN: Do you own any vintage computers?

A pre-release Amiga with the signatures of team members molded into the underside of the cover. Including mine. http://obligement.free.fr/gfx/a1000-signatures_2.jpg

Oh, how can I enumerate them all? But here are the ones set up in the room, not counting what's not rigged yet:

Commodore KIM-1, Commodore 128DCR, Tomy Tutor, Apple IIgs, Canon Cat, IMSAI 8080,

game systems: Atari 2600 (Darth Vader variety), GTE Sylvania Intellivision, Bally Astrocade

Other systems set up that could be considered vintage: Outbound Notebook, Mac IIci (with MacIvory III), Power Mac 7300 with G4/800, Color Classic with Mystic board, Quadra 800, BeBox/133, Solbourne S3000, VAXstation 3100 M76, SGI Indy, SGI Indigo2, QuikPak Amiga 4000T, beige box DOS 486, ThinkPad 860 (AIX 4.1.5), RDI PrecisionBook (PA-RISC), RDI SparcBook

and more recent: Power Mac G4 MDD, Samsung AlphaPC 164LX, SGI Fuel, Power Mac G5 Quad, Sun Ultra-3, Sega Dreamcast

typed on a Talos II

I have a large collection of digital equipment corp. flip chips in original packaging. I suspect they'd work in dec-10, pdp8 and pdp11 contexts (before the lsi-11 at least).

Dumpster diving from behind a university computer centre..

I own a ZX81. It's not working.

I own an acoustic coupler. It is enormous.

I used to own an Atari XE, a luggable CP/M thing (I can't remember the brand, but Osborne or Burroughs might be it), a HPUX machine with monitor (sync on green and heavy), an Atari ST, and a Mac Performa something ro other. I lost these after an illegal eviction.

http://www.thegameconsole.com/atari-xe/

I bought an old Commodore for a penny at a surplus sale when I was 10. I could barely lift it, and had to use my skateboard to get it home.

Here is some info from someone else who has the same machine https://www.oldcalculatormuseum.com/commal-1000.html

This year I got rid of most of my old computers, due to me emigrating to another country and because many were broken. Most were previously owned by my father who later in his life defected to Windows. Included were:

- An Apple II (might still have that one)

- 2 TI-99/4a computers and a Peripheral Expansion Box (learned programming on this machine with my father, expanded memory with 32k at some point)

- Mac Plus

- Mac Classic II

- Mac Color Classic

- Mac Quadra 660av

- My brother's Mac Performa 5210

- My PowerMac G4 and iMac G4 "lamp" - probably still have both of these

Many Oldest: Commodore PET 2001 Lots of Commodore 8-bits, (not the "whole set" but a significant portion) Some Atari 8Bits Apple IIc Various other bits and bobs.

Heh... probably sold/traded off as many other models as the ones I still have

Advantage: living nearish Silicon Valley but not in it - Disadvantage: apartment life.

I have a non-functional Sparcstation IPX that spent _years_ in the trunk of the car of one of my dad's coworkers. I took the electronics out and intend to build something cool inside _any day now_.

I also had a C64 when I was about 6 yo, and I'd like to fetch one from ebay or somewhere and restore it. Any day now, too .

APPLE ][+ Apple //e Timex sinclair 1000 Radio shack 100 Heathkit microcontroller trainer Rockwell aim RCA COSMAC ELF trainer Sun 3/80 Sun Sparc station 1 Tatung Sparc 2

Yes, an Apple //c, a RISC-PC 600, a Commodore 64, and a Vectrex. And soon to own a ZX Spectrum Next, which is a modern vintage computer.

I own an Aristo 868, a Hemmi No. 149, a 62/83N and a mint condition NOS 2/83N. Also an HP-48GX.

I have a Tadpole portable SPARC UNIX (Solaris) computer from the early 1990s.

Hmm.

I have a Tandy Model I 16K, and a Commodore C64. Pretty sure they both work.

I probably have others ...

- Some old rs/6000;

- Some Sun Ultrasparc based;

- Some DEC/Compaq Alpha based;

- Some HP Itanium based;

sun 3/80 sparc ipx sparc ipc sparc station 5 sgi indigio a few hp & power pcs sitting in the garage, i should get rid of them.

Atari 800.