Retro Computers

[Joni_78]

Anyone into it?

[Skyfrog]

I have an Atari 800, TI-99/4A, Dell 333s/L (386), a Tandy Sensation (486) and a few others I built. Right now finishing up on restoring a Macintosh Plus for someone.

[goretsky Supervisor]

Hello,
 

I'm interested, but at this point I think it is more practical to purchase modern day reinventions of old hardware with things like USB and HDMI ports, unless you happen to have all the old peripherals and TVs or monitors to use with them.

Regards,

Aryeh Goretsky
 

[Som]

I'd be interested in seeing what you'd consider retro these days. My first pc was an amstrad CPC.  Took about half hour to load a game called ghouls on tape. Managed to find a copy for retropie, the sound was amazing 

[matt74441]

  On 16/03/2025 at 19:28, Som said:

I'd be interested in seeing what you'd consider retro these days. My first pc was an amstrad CPC.  Took about half hour to load a game called ghouls on tape. Managed to find a copy for retropie, the sound was amazing 

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It is definitely subjective. My first computer was a Commodore 64 back in the early 90s and at that point that system was pretty old.

[corrosive23]

I have a few.

A pentium 3 1Ghz on an Asus P3B-F with 256 megs of pc133 ram, a Geforce 2, AWE64, and Aureal Vortex2, dvd drive, floppy drive, and a 128 gb ssd through an ide to sata adaptor - Windows 98SE

Pentium 2 350 Mhz on an Asus P2B with 64 megs, a Matrox g400, SB Vibra 16, 20 GB HDD, floppy and 16x cd rom - Windows 95

A 486 DX2 66 with 16 megs and a Tseng Labs ET 4000, SB 32PNP with a floppy and a 16x cd rom for DOS

 

Currently building a P4 for XP games.

 

[+Nik Louch Subscriber²]

I am currently building a RecalBox build around a Pi5 - and have gone back as far as the whole ZX Spectrum, Amstrad CPC464, Commodore64 era on the computing side.  Atari, Spectravision, Vectrex on the console side.  I am next going to look towards a BBC Model B as I wish to get Logotron working on it.  On the more modern front, I've only gone up to PS1, PSP, GameCube, Saturn, Dreamcast, Wii.

I assumed PS2 was out of reach, but will load a game on to test - biggest issue there is storage (of all the ROMs/rips of games that I obviously legally own).  

[Slugsie]

My current vintage computer collection includes:

BBC Model B x2
BBC Master 128
Acorn Electron x3
Enterprise 64
Sord CGL M5
Amstrad CPC 6128 (I think that's the one, I haven't had that one out in a long time)
Oric 1
Atari 1040 STE with 4MB upgrade

Not all are working unfortunately, but I'm slowly bringing some back to life. Got a new PSU coming for the BBC Master, it'll now be powered by a USB adaptor! The old PSU has completely died unfortunately, even a re-cap didn't help.

[neufuse Veteran]

I'm messing with a ZiLog 80 computer... wished I still had my TI 994A and my IBM PCjr... I learned to code on those... first "real" computer (since the PCjr was just an odd ball system) was a Tandy RLX 286... would love to have those again but space.....

[Slugsie]

Oh, forgot about my Sinclair ZX-80!

[Som]

  On 25/03/2025 at 15:48, Slugsie said:

Oh, forgot about my Sinclair ZX-80!

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That might be worth something 

[Mindovermaster Global Moderator]

We used to have an old Apple IIC, but I just gave it to a friend, as we couldn't get it to boot.

[Slugsie]

  On 25/03/2025 at 19:48, Som said:

That might be worth something 

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I think it is, but not as much as it could be. The original plastic case clips were replaced with screws, and the original PSU was replaced. But otherwise it's in good condition.