OLD-COMPUTERS.COM : The Museum

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Welcome to old-computers.com, the most popular website for old computers. Have a trip down memory lane re-discovering your old computer, console or software you used to have. There are actually 1250 systems in the museum. SHOW ME A RANDOM SYSTEM ! OHIO SCIENTIFIC ChallengerIn 1977 computing industry is changing fast. Ohio Scientific Instruments who were making a lot of expansion boards for their 400 single-board computer, called "Superboard", realize that it would be nice to sell all this hardware, all assembled, in a single case, ready to plug and use.That's what is a Challenger computer, more a concept than a single system. Indeed under the name Challenger came different configurations based around the Superboard system:- Challenger 65-1k: 6502A CPU, ser... WANG LABORATORIESWang 2200The Wang 2200 appeared in May 1973, and was Wang Laboratories' first minicomputer that could perform data processing in a common computer language: BASIC. It had a cathode ray tube (CRT) built-in its case and also an integrated computer-controlled cassette tape storage unit. 65,000 systems were shipped in its lifetime and it found wide use in small and medium-size businesses worldwide.There has been quite several diffent models of the 2200:- 2200A : first models released in 1973- 2200B :... MATTEL ELECTRONICS Keyboard ComponentSometime before the failed Aquarius home computer scheme was hatched by Mattel, the Intellivision team had attempted to expand Intellivision into the growing home computer market by turning it into a full fledged computer dubbed as the "Intellivision Keyboard Component", much in the same way Coleco was soon to do with their Adam computer.The unit featured a built-in cassette tape drive for loading and saving data. The Keyboard Component would plug into the cartridge slot on the Intellivision... RCAFred 2This Fred 2 computer is a prototype designed by Joseph Weisbecker, engineer at RCA. He already imagined several early computer designs before this Fred 2 model, such as the System 00 or the original Fred concept.Fred is rather a concept imagined by Joseph Weisbecker for educational computer able to play games. This concept emerged in several hardware versions through time. The first models could be dates as early as 1970 or 1971 !Unlike the System 00 which used only small-scale digital T... BANDAIArcadiaThe Bandai Arcadia, is the same system as the Emerson Arcadia 2001, but sold in Japan. Please see this entry for more detailed informations.The Arcadia 2001 clones includes : Advision Home Arcade (France), Bandai Arcadia (Japan), GiG Electronics Leonardo (Italy), Hanimex HMG-2650, Leisure-Dynamics Leisure-Vision, Intercord XL 2000 system, Eduscho / Tchibo Tele-Fever, etc... It... BANDAITV Jack 5000The TV Jack 5000 from Bandai released in 1978 is one of the first cartridge based system from Japan.It's the equivalent of european and american systems like the Hanimex SD-050, Acetronic Color TV Game, Prinztronic Micro 5500, SHG Blackpoint, Binatone Cablestar, Radofin telesports, etc. There have been tons of systems like these.The TV Jack 5000, like all these systems, use cartridges based on General Instruments chipsets which offers different games on each chip. That's why all these sy... OLIVETTI A5Olivetti introduced a mainframe about 1960 which was called ELEA, then in 1965 the Programma 101 - which was probably the world's first real desktop computer. Then a little later they introduced the Audiotronic range of "office computers". The first was the A770, which was replaced by the A7. The A5 was the desktop version.The Olivetti Audit 5 or A5 was largely an electro mechanical computer. It printed via a golf ball typewritter mechanism at the astonishing speed of 16 character per second... TRIUMPH ADLER TA-1600The TA 1600 system was introduced in 1983 at the CeBIT (which was only a part of the "Hannover-Messe" by that time). TA showed a few sample applications and the 1600 family in general.Triumph Adler's hardware included also the 1600/20-3 which was supplied with a permanent-swap-HDD-unit. This unit had a memory/storage capacity of 2 x 8 MB (Winchester technology).Triumph Adler said the system (the 1600) will fit the demand of medium-sized businesses, due to the facts that these companies w... MIDWICHMicrocontrollerCalled the Midwich Microcontroller, this British computer was developped to provide a small desktop micro capable of running other equipment throug a variety of interface cards.In 1979 an Italian IC manufacturer designed and began to sell a single board micro system that could be expanded to a full system with a VDU, discs, etc. Called the Nanocomputer, it was manufactured by SGS Ates and one of the distributors in the UK was Midwich. The Nano was somewhat expensive and suffered from a numbe... KAYPROKaypro 16The Kaypro 16 was the first Kaypro model to use MS-DOS and Intel 8088 CPU instead of the good old CP/M - Z80 couple. It was thus a machine that represents the new direction taken by Kaypro and the technological evolution in general.The Kaypro 16/2 is a Kaypro 16 with two 5''1/4 floppy drives and no hard drive. Both versions shipped with a large bundle of software: MS-DOS, WordStar, MailMerge, CalcStar, InfoStar, MITE, GW-Basic, tutorials and... 13 manuals!___________________... TOSHIBA T100-X DynapadLong before the tablet PC craze of fall 2002, there was the Toshiba T100X Dynapad. The T100X was a "pen-based computer" (This was before the term "tablet PC" existed) which ran on a 25MHz 386 AMD CPU. It shipped with 4MB RAM and had a 40MB hard disk drive for storage. It did not include an internal floppy disk drive, but a separate external floppy disk drive could be purchased.Similar to most modern tablet PCs, the T100X did not have a built-in keyboard, and mouse pointing was done with a st... SEIKOMC-2200The Seiko MC-2200 was a clone of the Sharp PC-1245. Besides, it was made by Sharp.The main differences were the case color, black instead of grey and brown for the Sharp, and the location of the 16-character display which was slightly moved to the right. The internal electronics was identical to the PC-1245'sThe tape-printer interface was also the same as the Sharp CE-125 but with black and grey colorsThis rare machine seems not to have met a great s... APPLE APPLE IIApple II was the successor to the Apple 1 on which it was largely based. It was the very first commercial success of the Apple Computer Company.Because Steve Wozniak wanted to demonstrate his Breakout game with the new Apple II, he decided to add colour, sound and minimum paddle support to the Apple 1's heir.The Apple II came with 4 KB RAM, but it was possible to add 4 KB or 16 KB RAM chips. Thus, the system could have memory in the following sizes: 4K, 8K... VIDEO TECHNOLOGY LASER 310The Laser 310 is an improved version of the Laser 200/210. Both computers are compatible with each other, for both software and hardware.Basically, it has an enhanced keyboard and more memory.This model was also sold worldwide, the most popular version being the VZ-300 from Dick Smith Electronics.... OLIVETTI A5Olivetti introduced a mainframe about 1960 which was called ELEA, then in 1965 the Programma 101 - which was probably the world's first real desktop computer. Then a little later they introduced the Audiotronic range of "office computers". The first was the A770, which was replaced by the A7. The A5 was the desktop version.The Olivetti Audit 5 or A5 was largely an electro mechanical computer. It printed via a golf ball typewritter mechanism at the astonishing speed of 16 character per second... HANIMEX SD 070 Colour (programmable TV-game console)This is a typical system using catridges based on the different chipsets developped by General Instruments in the late 70s. Each GI chips was able to generate several games, ball games for a start, then later car racing, motorcycle, submarines, tanks and shooting games.The system has two detachable controllers with one analog joystick and one fire button each. The control panel is composed of 10 buttons to select the different games offered by each cartridge (10 being the maximum). Difficult... YAMAHA YIS-303This Yamaha computer is specialised in music and sound production. In fact it is a low range MSX 1 computer, but if you bought the special Yamaha synthesizer and piano keyboard, then you had a real synthesizer with a sound quality really suprising for that time, and the ability to change or create you own sounds.The YIS-303 is in fact the same computer as the Yamaha CX5, but it has not got the SKW-01 Sound Module built-in. ORICSTRATOS / IQ 164The Oric Stratos was planned to replace the Oric Atmos. It was quite close to the Atmos but had some clever enhancements like a built-in floppy disk controller.This computer was never marketed but when Euréka purchased Oric, the Stratos project inspired a lot the Telestrat computer.... SANYO MBC-55x In 1988 these were still being offered in the Netherlands Sanyo 555/2 2FDD-360DD MS DOS 2.11 256kb RAM BW monitor and Wordstar, Calcstar and Mailmerge incl. 999 Guilders (about 350-400$ or 250-300 I guess) https://archive.org/details/hcc-nieuwsbrief-100/page/8/mode/1up The same magazine did a reprint of his test of the MBC555 priced at 4995 Guilders (1000$ or 1200 ) in 1984 in issue 100 of 1988 https://archive.org/details/hcc-nieuwsbrief-100/page/38/mode/1up VECTOR GRAPHICS Vector 3 (VIP) I have a Vector 3 with 5mb hard disk I bought in 1981. Used it in my business for 15 years or so. It ran when I shut it down. Want to find a home for it. Any suggestions? I live in Maine. SANCO 7000 To boot from floppy type I (as in Ireland) and return.for more info look at :http://www.sanyofrance.com/site$202000/histoire.htm MULTITECH MPF-I/88 I have put a User Manual here: http://leobodnar.com/MPF-I88/Multitech$20MPF-I88$20User$20Manual.pdf PSIONOrganiser II I have a Psion II XP. Not used it since the late 1980s.Woken it up in 2020 only to find my calender only goes up to 31 Dec 1999.Can this be changed because without out it nothing really works.Laso, is it possible to see how much unused data there is on a Datapack, or even the RAM. SANCO 8000 I recently acquired a Sanco 8150 or 8160. Never used a CP/M computer before though. After I power it on, it shows a simple 10 on the upper left corner of the screen. On the keyboard, the boot key lights up and if I press it, the computer beeps and then a line of plain rectangles appear right under the 10 . I cannot type anything. Unfortunately I can''t find any manual online. Can someone help me out on this ? HITACHI MB-6885 / Basic Master Jr (I''''ll write this as a message because Add Info does not work)MB6885 was successor of MB6881 (Basic Master Level II 2) . This machine had 256x192 graphics feature. Color display was also available with optional color-graphics adapter. These new feature was great in Basic Master Level2 series but not enough in Japanese market.Hitachi thought the MB-6885 as a hobby computer. But the hobby computer market was a fierce battlefield with NEC (PC-6001) , VIC-1001(Commodore) , JR-100 (Panasonic) and etc. MB-6885 was too weak for that battlefield. game - football - sport - vector graphics game - horizontal scrolling - shoot them up - space game - adventure - Scott Adams adventure games - text interface - text only - vampire

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