anybody like to collect vintage computer items?

[rche]

Being the type of person who finds it hard to toss anything, I have a small museum of my Macintosh upgrade path.

Does anybody else hold onto old systems and platforms and fire them up every once in a while for a quick flashback?

[Mikey]

Nah, but sometimes I wish I had my old TRS-80 Coco again just to play with it

[jimsmegos]

Far too frustrating to me. A couple of years ago there was an old laptop loaded with Windows 98. I fired it up and quickly lost my mind as everything responded so slow. No looking back here.

[sauce]

I have stuff that needs to get dumped. It's nutty!
Apple Museum!

[rche]

I dunno

It just makes me very happy when I crank up my SE/30 and hammer on the machine gun for a bit.

[Brad]

My Father-in-law still has 2 Tandy computers from around 1981.


They look like over sized word processors.

[johnmiic]

I still have my old Apple LC III, (the pizza box). I have been meaning to take it out and play with it. Occasionally I like to surf eBay for old programs I couldn't afford back then. I'm still hoping to find a copy of Canvas 3.0. It is a much beloved drawing program that after that version they seemed to give up on making good versions for Apple. I still have old sound effects and screen saver programs like Star Trek Audio and 2001 Audio for the LCIII.

[Figuremod73]

If i had the room I would. I really like old programs and games. The computer i still want after all these years is the Amiga. I would probably buy games for it to, its a alsome computer. I still like to collect Dos games to. Nice art work on many of them.

[Mawni]

List:

Macintosh SE
Macintosh Color Classic
Powerbook 145B
iMac Bondi Rev. B
15" PowerBook G4
13" PowerBook G4

All of them still work except the SE.

[Brazoo]

I have my Apple ][ c, Apple Imagewriter colour printer and all the boxes and software and stuff. I love it.

I just got rid of a bunch of worthless 90s stuff, like accessories I was hanging on to for no reason, like a dial-up modem and a couple of old old video cards.

[MegoSteve]

I still have a working Mac 512K in the basement somewhere, along with a 575 (I think) all-in-one with a color monitor. I'd like to track down a cheap strawberry iMac and/or a color classic and run flying toasters on it.

[Bill]

I wish I woulda held onto some of my old stuff from when I worked in the gaming industry. I sold off three sets of the GameBoy 3rd party games that were put out in the late 90's for a ton of cash last year, but I never worked on that project so it was easy to let them go.
There was a recent article in an Archeology magazine about early chip designs, and the fact that no one really held on to the original information.

[Werewolf]

I'm fascinated by vintage tech and love classic game consoles but I have yet to pick up any early computers. One of these days I'm going to have to get an Atari 800.