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- Inside the Commodore Pet 2001 vintage computer
- The Commodore PET 2001 was the first fully integrated computer from Commodore. It was based on the same architecture as the MOS/Commodore KIM-1 but provided a keyboard ("chicklet style"), tape drive and monitor all housed in a space-age case.Erik Klein, vintage computer collector and Webmaster of Vintage-Computer.com, takes you inside...
- Tags: Commodore, computer, Erik, image, keyboard, monitor, photograph, tape drive, Web, Web site, Webmaster
- Image galleries 2006-07-14
- Inside the Altair 8800 vintage computer
- If not the first home computer, Ed Roberts' Altair 8800 was definitely the first successful one. Erik Klein, vintage computer collector and Webmaster of Vintage-computer.com, takes you inside the Altair 8800 as he restores one of these classic machines.
- Tags: Altair 8800, computer, home PC, Webmaster
- Image galleries 2006-07-13
- IBM PC celebrates 25th anniversary
- Introduced on August 12th, 1981, the IBM Personal Computer PC celebrated its 25th anniversary in 2006. Erik Klein, vintage computer collector and Webmaster of Vintage-Computer.com, takes you on a tour of IBM's venerable desktop.Erik has graciously allowed us to republish his photos and descriptions. You can find a much...
- Tags: desktop, Erik Klein, IBM Corp., IBM PC, image, PC, photograph, tour, Web, Web site, Webmaster
- Image galleries 2006-08-16
- Photos: Vintage Computer Festival
- Industry veterans and computer hobbyists gather at the festival to ogle the collection of vintage personal computers. by CNET News.com
- Tags: news, festival, personal computers, computing history, TechRepublic Inc., Photograph, Computer, Productivity, CNET News.com
- Image galleries 2007-11-05
- Inside the first personal computer: Kenbak-1
- The Kenbak-1 is considered by many to be the world's first "Personal Computer." The Computer History Museum granted it this designation when they were still located in Boston in 1986. More specifically, the machine represents the first commercially available Von Neumann stored program computing device intended and priced for personal...
- Tags: Boston, computer, designation, Erik Klein, image, Kenbak-1, PC, photograph, Web, Web site, Webmaster
- Image galleries 2006-07-20
- Photos: Historic PCs
- At the Vintage Computer Festival, which played host to the Homebrew Computer Club's 30th anniversary, a look at yesterday's computers.
- Tags: computer, PC, photograph
- Image galleries 2005-11-07
- Photos: Homebrew's 30th anniversary
- The Homebrew Computer Club's 30th anniversary celebration was part of the Vintage Computer Festival at the Computer History Museum in Mountain View, Calif.
- Tags: California, celebration, computer, Mountain View, photograph
- Image galleries 2005-11-06
- Chicklet style keyboard (Inside the Commodore Pet 2001 vintage computer)
- Cut my computing teeth on the very same model...When I first started using PC's, the Commodore PET 2000 series was what I used. We had three of them in our computers class at high school. It was a part of the process leading me into a 27 year...
- Tags: Keyboards, PRODUCTIVITY, dwain.erhart@..., Commodore Pet, Commodore, Commodore Pet 2001, memory, keyboard, computer
- Discussion threads 2007-08-22
- Vintage Computer Festival: The rare, historic, and bizarre
- I missed it!!I felt super bad about missing this event, but it was on the other side of the country, and didn't have the means to travel there. But WOW!! I would have given ANYTHING to have gone!! I know it sounds ultra geeky, but that would...
- Tags: Notebooks, yooper@...
- Discussion threads 2007-11-18
- Commodore Pet 2001 (Inside the Commodore Pet 2001 vintage computer)
- First computer I ever used...This was the first computer I ever used back in middle school back in about 1982.Although all I remember doing with it was learning to program such masterpieces as :PRINT "2+2=4"or whatever the exact syntax was(They were afraid to teach us how to actually use it...
- Tags: Commodore, Commodore PET, Commodore Pet 2001, pet, zahn@..., hardware, computer
- Discussion threads 2006-07-19
- Dinosaur Sightings: Computers from 1984-1989
- The 1980s was a decade when cool cops patrolled the streets of Miami and Reaganomics drove US fiscal policy. It was also the decade when PCs went mainstream. This gallery showcases several 1980-1983 machines from Steven Stengel's vintage computer collection.Steven has graciously allowed us to republish his photos and descriptions....
- Tags: Steven Stengel, Miami, photograph, computer, Web site, PC, Web
- Image galleries 2006-06-07
- Dinosaur Sightings: Computers from the 1970s
- During the disco days of the 1970s, personal computers moved out of the electronic hobbyist's garage or basement and into the office, classroom, and family den. This gallery showcases several 1970-era machines from Steven Stengel's vintage computer collection. Steven has graciously allowed us to republish his photos and descriptions. You...
- Tags: basement, classroom, computer, den, garage, hobbyist, PC, photograph, Steven Stengel, Web, Web site
- Image galleries 2006-05-18
- Dinosaur Sightings: Computers from 1980-1983
- The 1980s was a decade when cool cops patrolled the streets of Miami and Reaganomics drove US fiscal policy. It was also the decade when PCs went mainstream. This gallery showcases several 1980-1983 machines from Steven Stengel's vintage computer collection. Steven has graciously allowed us to republish his photos and...
- Tags: Steven Stengel, Miami, photograph, computer, Web site, PC, Web
- Image galleries 2006-06-07
- Altair 8800 (Inside the Altair 8800 vintage computer)
- Do you know where the Altair got its name?The correct answer is: A Star Trek episode, but only 45 percent of those who took our September 2002 computer history quiz knew this answer, as shown in Figure C. The January 1975 cover of Popular Electronics gave readers their first look...
- Tags: Altair 8800, star trek, staff, off topic, geekend, dinosaur sightings, altair, Bill Detwiler - TechRepublic, hardware, computer
- Discussion threads 2006-07-18
- Disco-era computers bring back memories
- During the disco days of the 1970s, personal computers moved out of the electronic hobbyist's garage or basement and into the office, classroom, and family den. I posted a gallery that showcases several 1970-era machines from Steven Stengel's vintage computer collection. Steven has graciously allowed us to republish his photos...
- Tags: computer
- Blog posts 2006-05-19
- (Photos: Vintage Computer Festival)
- Exidy SorcererI still have an Exidy Sorcerer which I first cut my computing teeth on in 1979 long before the Sinclair Z80 came on the market. It was a z80 machine that had a massive memory for that time of 48K and runs with plug in modules for basic loading...
- Tags: Keyboards, PRODUCTIVITY, jed.gart@..., Vintage Computer Festival, Atari Inc., Tandy, computer, photograph
- Discussion threads 2007-11-09
- One of the 4 Seals 8k static RAM cards (Inside the Altair 8800 vintage computer)
- Informer Z80 MicrocomputerIn West Liberty, Iowa a company called Digital Sports Systems built the next step up from the Altair. It had the Zilog Z80 8 bit CPU with the S100 bus. It used 4k dynamic rams and could address 64k of memory. The system supported 2...
- Tags: 8 bit microcomputer, Altair 8800, computer, hardware, msdos, RAM, tomlawrence@..., z80
- Discussion threads 2006-07-28
- Dinosaur Sightings: Computers from the 1970s
- Buy, sell, and trade old computer equipment!Steven Stengel is always looking for more old computers to expand his already impressive collection. If you have an old machine, or know a great place to snag vintage computer hardware, post the information here.You can also contact Steven directly from Oldcomputer.net.Toshiba T1200, Zenith...
- Tags: COMPUTERS, Zenith, computer, off topic, old computers, gallery, dinosaur sightings, Bill Detwiler - TechRepublic, hardware, Steven Stengel
- Discussion threads 2006-05-19
- Add an arcade to your game room with a MAME cabinet or console
- For gamers like me who grew up with arcades, having a game cabinet the basement would have been the ultimate cool toy. Even as PC and console games met and eventually surpassed arcade machines, the mystique of owning an arcade cabinet still exists. Besides, a mouse button click just isn't...
- Tags: 401(k) plan, Apple Mac OS, Apple Macintosh, basement, cabinet, computer, computer game, console, copyright law, den, DOS, game, gamer, knowledge, Linux, Microsoft Corp., Microsoft Windows, Microsoft Xbox, mouse, operating system, PC, thrill, toy, U.S., Unix
- Image galleries 2006-08-18
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