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your latest Retro computer purchases
« on: August 14, 2009, 11:59:11 PM »
Got a thread like this over at Atariage, it keeps on running. Great place to show off your new toys.
This week I have mostly been buying the most hideous compy pro joystick I have ever seen


and a Sony CRT broadcast quality monitor that does all the PALs, NTSC and SECAM, not bad for 99p and £8.15 postage
These things are badass and built like tanks, this 19" one is 35kg!!!
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Re: your latest Retro computer purchases
« Reply #1 on: August 15, 2009, 12:15:56 AM »
Wow, great monitor 8).  I've been on the lookout for a Sony PVM.
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« Reply #2 on: August 15, 2009, 12:27:24 AM »
Quote from: Quagmire on August 15, 2009, 12:15:56 AM
Wow, great monitor 8).  I've been on the lookout for a Sony PVM.
been looking for a while, they usually have a much bigger price tag when they sell!!
We have one at work that they refuse to let me have >:(
Fingers crossed that UPS don't kill it
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Re: your latest Retro computer purchases
« Reply #3 on: August 15, 2009, 09:42:10 AM »
My most recent purchases are:
  • BBC Master 128
  • Acorn Archimedes A3010 (I know I already have one, but I like these :))
  • CTX Maxiputer integrated all-in-one Monitor/PC (well, this was actually a freebie)
  • Via Epia C3 motherboard with onboard CF card reader (bootable), 3.5" and 2.5" IDE controller and "disk on chip"
  • BBC Micro model B (got this about a week and a half ago)
So, quite a bit has been added to the collection :)
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Re: your latest Retro computer purchases
« Reply #4 on: August 15, 2009, 11:15:56 AM »
Not much this week

Atari 1050 Disk Drive plus games and I pre-ordered the new Wolfenstein game for the PC.
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« Reply #5 on: August 15, 2009, 11:33:20 AM »
Oh, another thing I forgot to mention: I got Wolfenstein 3D for the Acorn Archimedes
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« Reply #6 on: August 15, 2009, 09:24:00 PM »
GRiDPad 1910
BBC Master
Acorn A3020

Those 3 machines cost me £30 in total. Also been given/swap an accelerator card for my Amiga 1200.

Getting a 6502 Tube CPU for the beeb next weekend, and a very old Toshiba portable.
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Re: your latest Retro computer purchases
« Reply #7 on: August 16, 2009, 01:24:38 PM »
Here's my latest, MSX Turbo R

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Re: your latest Retro computer purchases
« Reply #8 on: August 17, 2009, 12:39:55 AM »
I finally found an original Yamaha MSX cart for my C5XM synth and keyboard set up :)

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Re: your latest Retro computer purchases
« Reply #9 on: August 17, 2009, 12:31:31 PM »
My latest system purchases are:

Asian Megadrive, boxed with 9 games for about £25 - this is one of those system that looks like a Japanese MD but outputs a PAL 50Hz picture...  ???

Sega SG-1000 II, boxed, plus a bunch of games and the Card Catcher unit. The system itself cost under £40 which was a steal!  ;D

Epoch TV-Vader, boxed - this is a dedicated Japanese Space Invaders console, similar to our dedicated Pong consoles that we had inn the late 70's. Cost about £35. Here's a pic (not of mine though!)

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Re: your latest Retro computer purchases
« Reply #10 on: August 17, 2009, 12:33:33 PM »
Quote from: 1200xl on August 14, 2009, 11:59:11 PM
This week I have mostly been buying the most hideous compy pro joystick I have ever seen


I had one of those when I was kid!  ;D
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Re: your latest Retro computer purchases
« Reply #11 on: August 17, 2009, 03:06:00 PM »
Not specifically a purchase, but a faulty CBM 1541 disk drive from Witchfinder.

Will be using the case to set up either a retro look home NAS server via Freenas - http://www.freenas.org/ or ITX based PC for my emulator collection similar to this one - http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/c1541/

Not sure which yet.
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Re: your latest Retro computer purchases
« Reply #12 on: August 17, 2009, 03:29:12 PM »
Quote from: stiggy2009 on August 17, 2009, 03:06:00 PM
Not specifically a purchase, but a faulty CBM 1541 disk drive from Witchfinder.

Will be using the case to set up either a retro look home NAS server via Freenas - http://www.freenas.org/ or ITX based PC for my emulator collection similar to this one - http://www.mini-itx.com/projects/c1541/

Not sure which yet.


Bit like my VIC-PC then... http://retrocomputers.wordpress.com/the-vic20-pc/
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Re: your latest Retro computer purchases
« Reply #13 on: August 17, 2009, 04:15:42 PM »
I have the same board as AndyT has, and plan to do a similar idea to Stiggy (have it as a NAS)
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« Reply #14 on: August 17, 2009, 04:46:26 PM »
PVM arrived today  ;D
But it wont power on >:(
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