1979 Dream Machine :?

[dougie79]

Just something to get some of you thinking. I rescued this rather stange rebuilt apple II computer from the skip at work. I collect vintage computers and have done so for about 15 years, this has to be the strangest one I have ever obtained. It was bulit in 1979 by apple, but someone along the way has re-incased it into this housing. Only bawache is that they keyboard has gone . There is a LPT1 port on the back but ive no idea of what to do with it. It does work and has 2 5and a quarter disk drives. If anyone has any ideas on how to get a keyboard working oin it or if you want to adopt it then let me know.

[TEAMSANO]

thats absolutely first class.

can you run yer ipod aff it tho?

[AMcD]

There's a guy called Witchy who posts on another MB I visit who shares the same hobby.

http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/

He's bound to know.

[dougie79]

cheers guys. I was going to try sell the thing but dont know if its actually worth anything, might have to pay the bin men to take it. Ill check that website. Aye have had my ipod connected to it, lightning fast and the DVD quality is second to none. None being the WORD there!

[glasgowken]

Great site The Amstrad CPC464 my first proper computer.

http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum ... ams464.php


Tell a lie, I think this was my first, although I only had it about a week before we decided it was crap, and packed it up for a refund.

http://www.binarydinosaurs.co.uk/Museum ... ari400.php

I got the CPC464 a couple of years after. It was a wee bit better, and came with a bunch of free games on tape.

[AlanM]

I started with a Sinclair ZX81, complete with shoogly 16K RAM pack

[Alycidon]

There are sites where you can download old Sinclair ZX81 and Specturum games. I thought at first the download hadnt worked as it seemed too fast. Then I remembered you are only downloading about 45KB of data, miniscule by today's standards!!