tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-85066539625046899912024-02-07T01:09:36.124-08:00The As Yet Unnamed PC MuseumAnthony's collection of Retro Computers based in South East Melbourne, Australia. Commodore, Apple, Atari, IBM!As Yet Unnamed PC Museumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00663819508688935822noreply@blogger.comBlogger12125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8506653962504689991.post-67558266316326425832020-03-07T15:32:00.000-08:002020-03-07T15:32:51.798-08:00In January/February a lot has happened.<br />
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Acquisitions -<br />
- Atari PC3 (damaged one delivery)<br />
- Compaq AlphaServer DS20E<br />
- Digital AlphaServer 800<br />
- Atari 810S SD Card SIO Reader<br />
- Imsai 8080 kit by The High Nibble<br />
- IBM Xeon Server<br />
- Commodore PET 2001 Kit<br />
- Commodore Magazine Australia issues<br />
- IBM LCD Monitor<br />
- IBM Aptiva Pentium 3<br />
- Transwarp IIgs 1.5 6 MHz<br />
- IIgs 4 MB RAM Expansion<br />
- New Commodore 64C Case for Ultimate 64 (in SX64 colour scheme)<br />
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Achievements<br />
- Installed OS/2 Warp 4.5 on the Aptiva on an IDE/Compact Flash drive<br />
- Installed OpenVMS 8.3 on the DS20E<br />
- Upgraded my GS with Transwarp, High Speed SCSI (Sandwich 2), Installed 4 MB RAM<br />
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Disposals<br />
- Amstrad CPC464 System<br />
- Spectrum Tapes<br />
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<br />As Yet Unnamed PC Museumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00663819508688935822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8506653962504689991.post-64908396580766198442020-01-16T23:25:00.001-08:002020-01-16T23:25:19.802-08:00IBM JX Information Page now online!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have been wanting to document the IBM JX and put whatever information I can find in a single location. I have seen the wonderful <a href="https://www.brutman.com/PCjr/">PCjr site by Mike</a> and have wished there was a similar repository for the PCjrs younger brother the JX. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well, I have made a start. I'm guessing I have the largest JX pile around (although I read that there were 40+ JX units in Bendigo in my research - I wonder where they went) so I am in a pretty good position to start.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can find my new site here at <a href="http://www.thepcmuseum.com/ibmjx">http://www.thepcmuseum.com/ibmjx</a>. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have plenty of work to do, so I'll keep going! I'd say I have put at least 24 hours of research, scanning and documentation in so far - and there is a lot to cover.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">If you can help me with any magazines or documents, I'd really appreciate any support! Happy to collaborate or work with others.</span>As Yet Unnamed PC Museumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00663819508688935822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8506653962504689991.post-71486609236642589232020-01-13T18:39:00.002-08:002020-01-13T18:39:16.245-08:00Busy Busy Busy<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been a couple of months since I have uploaded a blog (not that anyone reads this), but I have been extremely busy!</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In December, I began actively tidying up the shed. In doing so, I was reading some of my documents and discovered some interesting Commodore 65 drawings. While out on a run, I was listening to Chicken Lips Radio where they mentioned the Commodore International Historical Society. I then reached out and uploaded bucketloads. You can see some of my handiwork here -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also exhibited at the Bundoora Swap Meet in early January with the Australian Vintage Computer group. I brought along an Apple ///+, an IBM JX, Atari 800 and a Commodore PET 8032. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was a bit of fun - plenty of interest from the community. It was great to meet many of the people in the Facebook group - other than Alan and Ian - I don't know many of the newer collectors.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In terms of acquisitions over the last few months, I have acquired a Commodore 1540 disk drive in working condition with original VIC ROMs in it as well as a lot of products from tfw8bit.com - The Penultimate Cartridge is a a real ripper. I also picked up all of the diagnostics cartridges (264 Diag, 1541 Test, C64 Dead Test).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I also purchased a PABX to simulate dialup between machines. This cheap chinese unit works great and allows up to 33.6k connections. I look forward to demoing what BBSing used to be like in a future demonstration using real modems.</span>As Yet Unnamed PC Museumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00663819508688935822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8506653962504689991.post-77739308744515340692019-11-06T23:00:00.000-08:002019-11-06T22:59:59.973-08:00JX stuff to archive.orgI'm starting to get my unique stuff online.<br />
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My IBM JX documentation and software will slowly start to appear on Archive.org at this link <a href="https://archive.org/search.php?query=subject%3A%22IBM+JX%22">here</a>.<br />
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I have simply linked to the search IBM JX as there is hardly anything there.As Yet Unnamed PC Museumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00663819508688935822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8506653962504689991.post-36437669921831492922019-11-06T00:13:00.000-08:002019-11-06T00:13:03.249-08:00Finally imaged my IBM PC JX titles!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Well - I finally managed to get my Super Card Pro to image my IBM PC JX disks. This was required as some of them are copy protected and they are all self booting disks. It took me a while to figure out that to image them and get them to work you had to set the program to IBM 1.44MB (and not IBM 720k).</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So - all you need is a high density 3.5" disk drive and load these images into Super Card Pro and you can boot your JX! I will note that if you don't have the 720k ROM chip (that is the 8732KY chip as opposed to the 360k 8532K9) - you can only use the DOS 2.1 boot disk. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">All the other disks are 360k 3.5" disks - once again, only the DOS 3.2 is 720k.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">DOS 3.2 is FANTASTIC - It has sorted out a number of issues with my super IBM PC JX. For those who don't know, I removed the old Matsushita 10 MB drive and replaced it with a DREM HD Emulator. Its super sweet.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As for the productivity titles, they are underwhelming. The Sampler is a bit of a laugh. There are full versions of the Writing Assistant, Planning Assistant and DOS versions - and the My JX Sampler as well as demos of Writing Assistant, Planning Assistant, Graphing Assistant and Filing and Reporting Assistant.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Enjoy. You can get the SCP images <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/sh/yu7140env0nit6u/AACbsMo_LlUjq4-Iz8YHv39ca?dl=0">here</a> or by using the link below.</span><br />
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<br />As Yet Unnamed PC Museumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00663819508688935822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8506653962504689991.post-46116165807430205352019-10-24T00:51:00.003-07:002019-10-24T00:56:54.579-07:00September / October 2019 Update<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Wow wee -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">A lot has happened in the last few months.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">1. I received my Applesauce Disk Imager and its amazing. I have started imaging all my Apple // and Apple /// disks with great vigour. I need to get around to finishing what I have started and uploading to the internet. Whats even better is I downloaded the Washington Apple Pi DVD and have been able to download ADTPro for the Apple ///.. which leads to point 2.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">2. My Apple /// Plus is working fantastic. I bought a new power supply from <a href="http://www.reactivemicro.com/">ReactiveMicro</a> and its amazing. The plug to the mains wasn't quite right so I had to resolver an end on it but my Apple /// Plus is going well. I then connected it to the recently aquired Apple /// Hard Disk and imaged the disk and uploaded it. You can get it <a href="https://www.dropbox.com/s/09a4ek6c0b968ew/profile3.po?dl=0">here</a>. Feel free to dig around and beat me to whatever is on there.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">3. I finally got around to re-carbonising the keys on my Commodore PET 2001. This is fantastic as now I can use it like it was 1979.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">5. An auction at Yarra Valley Auctions was hosted where I was successful in buying a number of items. What is sad is that a gentlemen here in Victoria sold his entire collection. </span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">You can view what it was <a href="http://computermuseum.bigpondhosting.com/">here</a>. Hopefully it doesn't get ripped down any time soon. There was a hive of activity from 2004 and then nothing from 2013. Whats sad is the post when he got the collection of computers from the ANU which you can read in his LOG -</span><br />
<i>Private collections are often donated to public institutions after, the owners pass away or want to move on and the items are usually kept in good hands, but not always. One person set up an antique bottle museum in Clunes (not far from Ballarat) it flourished while he was around, when he died the museum was past to public hands and the best bottles in the collection soon disappeared. Privately owned collections are owned by one or a few individuals and they can choose to do what they want with the items, sell to the highest bidder? My point is both privately owned collections and publicly owned collections have desirable and undesirable characteristics and I guess when it comes down to it. No single person can own an item forever. Anyone involved in a museum of any kind, should do there best to do the right thing. I would like to see the items in my museum kept together maybe some day a public institution could take the collection, or maybe it could go to my children, I don't know what will happen but I will try and do the right thing.</i><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;"><br /></span>As Yet Unnamed PC Museumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00663819508688935822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8506653962504689991.post-50199386262688921102019-08-29T17:02:00.000-07:002019-08-29T17:02:11.637-07:00Huge Progress in the Shed!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Over the last two weeks (I'm on Annual Leave), I have been taking the time to tidy up my shed. Its been a bit of a disaster and I have been too stuck to do much about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I listened to a back episode of the RCR Podcast about Hoard vs Private Collection vs Museum. I always wanted the latter, but it sometimes resembled the former.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have struggled since 1997 to not just collect everything. While that has actually benefited my collection, I have gotten rid of many systems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have essentially cut down to -</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Commodore 8 bit line (really all NON Amiga Commodores)</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Atari 8 bit line</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Apple everything</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- IBM Everything up to the AT</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Random assortment of odds and sods like DEC Rainbow, Professional 350, VAXMate, couple of MicroVaxes </span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- All consoles up to PS2</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">And while that sounds like a cut down, I have still a large collection. I have removed a heap of equipment and manuals from my collection that were just simply being hoarded. I had no intention of reading them - they were just taking up space. A couple of machines and parts have been sold and a few more are about to go.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Whats great is it gives you such relief when you can actually use the workbenches and things are not on the floor. The main section of my shed now looks like this - no obstacles on the floor - generally tidy and workable.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">My "office" and repair area is much more organised - I have installed shelving and tidied up the area - there is still work to do as I am still removing things from the shed but it give you an idea of where I am heading.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So I have been giving myself a break and doing some of the stuff I have wanted to do for a long time. Namely - get my PETs working and backup all my PET software. To do this I have been using <a href="http://store.go4retro.com/zoomfloppy/">ZoomFloppy</a> on a Windows 10 PC using <a href="https://spiro.trikaliotis.net/opencbm">OpenCBM</a> and <a href="http://www.6502.org/users/sjgray/software/cbmxfer/cbmxfer.html">CBM Transfer</a> software. This works OK, but backing up a 8050 or 8250 disk takes around 45 minutes. So I have plenty of time to do other things while that is happening.</span></div>
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<br />As Yet Unnamed PC Museumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00663819508688935822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8506653962504689991.post-3260842081291131142019-08-20T18:36:00.003-07:002019-08-20T18:36:57.359-07:00New Aquisitions<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It was brought to my attention that a seller in Narre Warren was offering some fairly unique pieces of equipment via Facebook Marketplace (thanks Ian). In the peculiar post it showed a number of interesting items in unknown condition -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Apple IIc</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Apple IIc Monitor with its electronics removed</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Apple /// with no motherboard</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Monitor ///</span><br />
<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">- Profile Hard Drive</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I made him an offer, he countered, we struck a deal. I picked up the kit yesterday.</span><br />
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As Yet Unnamed PC Museumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00663819508688935822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8506653962504689991.post-23601252862351109392019-07-21T01:36:00.002-07:002019-07-21T01:36:48.079-07:00Weird Dick Smith VZ-200 Mess<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I am going to try to work on that pile of debris at the back of the shed piece by piece, and today I decided to grab this thing and have a look - identify what it is and whether it works.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A great clue that this is the VZ range of computers (also known as the VTech Laser 200). I plugged in the IO boards and booted up to see what we had.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This was a HAM radio operators computer - and this board is a Radio Teletype board. Neat!</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately as my collection is busting at the seams, I'll be cleaning this unit up and moving it along. It does not fit in the criteria I defined and I don't consider the VZ-200 to be interesting - especially in this shape.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">There is unfortunately not very much information about the Bit90. I received an email from Mark from Traralgon who offered me this machine. When he contacted me, I had never heard of this machine so I was pretty excited to learn all about it.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What I did learn that the machine was some kind of <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bit_Corporation">Z80 machine that was based on the Colecovision hardware</a>.The <a href="http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?st=1&c=93">other reference</a> had a bit more information but it was quite sparse. This made it even more interesting a find.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The box was interesting. You can see the Bit 90 machine in the corner with what appears to be Atari 2600 cartridges, however the graphics on the screen are way more advanced than the 2600 offers, which made me consider the Colecovision as factual.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Unfortunately, the machine came with NO MANUAL and the box does not provide any insight into the machines capabilities.</span></span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">The whole setup was very painless. That wraps up my initial play with the Bit 90 but I will no doubt delve deeper once I get the keyboard working. What a great find! If anyone knows the whereabouts of a manual that I can read, it would be most appreciated.</span></div>
As Yet Unnamed PC Museumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00663819508688935822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8506653962504689991.post-72472674236571254192019-07-19T03:15:00.002-07:002019-07-19T03:15:30.607-07:00New items!<span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Today I met with Mark who parted with 3 little gems -</span><br />
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As Yet Unnamed PC Museumhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00663819508688935822noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8506653962504689991.post-87491573308889200012019-07-17T02:39:00.003-07:002019-07-17T02:51:13.688-07:00Wow! After 17 years, I have made an update!<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Hello all -</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Quick introduction. My name is Anthony and I have been collecting for a while. I started in 1997 and went crazy. I ended up with a lot of stuff as you can see but I certainly started in the golden age of Vintage Computer collecting as I have many many gems.</span><br />
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">My website hasn't been updated in quite some time. There is a combination of reasons for this.</span><br />
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Laziness</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I haven't had a lot of time</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">HTML is a pain in the butt and I don't know how I had the time to do it</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So. I am going to try to use a blog, insert photos and update this way. Since my last post in February 2002, a lot has happened.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I moved, I had to get rid of stuff because I had way too many machines and I wasn't paying certain lines any attention - eg Amigas, Microbees, Tandys, Amstrads, Coleco Adam, Xerox 820s, Spectrums and lots of obscurities. I decided to rationalise my collection along the following lines -</span></div>
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<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Atari 8-Bits (bye bye Falcon, TT and STs)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Apple everything</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">IBM PCs (but not clones, bye Compaq portables and other obscurities)</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Game Consoles are IN!</span></li>
<li><span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Whatever I want that doesn't fit in this criteria but I like.</span></li>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">So. Here I am in 2019 with a shed still full of all sorts of stuff.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Here is what it looks like today.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have deliberately hidden the back area which needs a lot of work. My vision is to have my key equipment on benches in operational condition with their drives available to use while on the upper level - maximising bench space and maximising display rather than being on shelves.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I have also created an area where I can blog, work, do demonstrations of some of my interesting stuff - the IBM JX with 10 MB Hard Disk will likely be my first video demonstration. I will avoid doing videos of equipment that has already been done to death, but some of my unique kit would be worth showing. I have enough accessories, add ons and tools to make the videos interesting. </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">I also have a nice work bench area with repair and software transferring tools - so I can get all the demonstration stuff working, back the software up and get any software required that I don't already have. I have recently bought the SuperCard Pro and will be putting that through its paces to back up some unusual software that I have in here.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "arial" , "helvetica" , sans-serif;">Anyway, I hope to regularly contribute about what I am doing and what my progress is on projects - so... hello! Feel free to comment!</span></div>
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