Vintage Computers

The_Librarian said:
Bit of a derailment, sorry.


So. Did not get to start teaching the kids BASIC due to us not havening electricity and all that, but we'll be connected to the Eishkon grid soon.

What do you guys suggest - which emulators will allow you to LOAD and SAVE BASIC games?

Emulated PC does not matter, just that you can LOAD and SAVE games at will.

Got a laptop that the kids can use, plan to install the emulator on it, and give it to the kids to teach themselves.

Back to the topic, thanks.
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You could run qbasic on dosbox.
 
interesting thread - my first encounter with anything that can be remotely called a computer was a casio hand held pocket calculator/ computer.

something similar to this one in the pic below. bought it in 1980 while studying engineering at tech.

never new what happened to it :( came back from 2yrs national service and my father had tossed everything I owned out!

Casio PB-400.jpg
 
spiff said:
interesting thread - my first encounter with anything that can be remotely called a computer was a casio hand held pocket calculator/ computer.

something similar to this one in the pic below. bought it in 1980 while studying engineering at tech.

never new what happened to it :( came back from 2yrs national service and my father had tossed everything I owned out!

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We used those up to the mid 90's at TUKS for mathematical algo's such as riemann sums and the like, don't know why they did not just send us to the computer lab instead. They were pretty expensive at the time, for the time.
 
have a working win 3.1 laptop.... is in a box though and I cant see myself touching it again
 
etienne_marais said:
We used those up to the mid 90's at TUKS for mathematical algo's such as riemann sums and the like, don't know why they did not just send us to the computer lab instead. They were pretty expensive at the time, for the time.
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can't remember what I paid for it back then but it came with a ram module - used it for my calculus exams
 
The_Librarian said:
Bit of a derailment, sorry.


So. Did not get to start teaching the kids BASIC due to us not havening electricity and all that, but we'll be connected to the Eishkon grid soon.

What do you guys suggest - which emulators will allow you to LOAD and SAVE BASIC games?

Emulated PC does not matter, just that you can LOAD and SAVE games at will.

Got a laptop that the kids can use, plan to install the emulator on it, and give it to the kids to teach themselves.

Back to the topic, thanks.
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https://sourceforge.net/projects/pcbasic/
 
spiff said:
never new what happened to it :( came back from 2yrs national service and my father had tossed everything I owned out!
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Boetie gaan border toe, boetie kom terug maar alles is weg! I thought that I was the only one... LOL
 
My dad brought home one of these beauties in the mid 90's.
By then it was already more than 10 years old and worked perfectly.
Wish we kept it, would have gladly passed it on. (I wonder what happened to it :confused:)

http://www.old-computers.com/museum/computer.asp?c=512

http://www.dopecc.net/compcat/ABC/AiABC-1dsn.html

NAME - ABC 26 (AI Business Computer)
MANUFACTURER - AI Electronics
ORIGIN-Japan
YEAR -1982
KEYBOARD-Mechanical QWERTY / AZERTY keyboard
16 function keys and numeric keypad
CPU-Zilog Z80A
SPEED -4 Mhz
CO-PROCESSOR-Arithmetic processor
RAM-64 kb (up to 1Mb)
ROM-4 kb (monitor)
TEXT MODES-80 x 24
GRAPHIC MODES-640 x 288 and 640 x 576 optional (PLOT 10 compatible)
COLORS -monochrome (12'' green monitor)
I/O PORTS-2 x serial ports - 2 x parallel ports x 1 GP-IB (IEEE 488) port
BUILT IN MEDIA-ABC-26 : 2 x 8'' floppy disk-drives (1,2Mb each)
OS Dosket, CP/M & M/PM
 
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^^Not quite a gaming machine but certainly unique! Nice keyboard...
 
I've been given a P4 with both IDE and SATA connectors.
It has a 1GB DDR 400 chip in it.


It still works! :eek:


I am considering what to do with it.
 
This one with an original Pentium2 266MHz CPU and 2x 128Mb RAM - genuine Intel AL440LX motherboard.

al440lx.jpeg

Also, an AOpen AX6B with 2x128Mb RAM and original Intel Pentium2 @ 350MHz (not the one shown in the picture)

ax6b.jpeg

All the caps are intact, no swollen caps. This was before the faulty electrolyte recipe got used, and caps was good for 1000 years.

The motherboard also have a "Netware Ready" certification sticker on it :D
 
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Venomous said:
I've been given a P4 with both IDE and SATA connectors.
It has a 1GB DDR 400 chip in it.


It still works! :eek:


I am considering what to do with it.
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Have a bunch of those at work in storage haha
 
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