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Yasss :D My list of one retro machine has just got bigger - but please don't tell my wife :whistle: Commodore a600/HD (don't know what size) Spectrum +2A Megadrive Acorn Electron + tape recorder

So I have found out, and here the local IT recycling company that gets all the goodies, recycles what they want, and the rest is simply broken beyond repair, so it's no use to anyone, and dumped in a skip :'(

Can I just say, that I'm very jealous! But I suppose we all have to start somewhere....bet my list is the smallest though! Apple Macintosh Classic (B/W) 4Mb RAM, 40Mb Disk-drive, ADT mouse/keyboard II

Was at the local cowp the other day - it's very fancy pants, bays for paper, clothes, oil, batteries (you get the picture), and one large container (half the length of an HGV trailer), where people can throw out all their unwanted or broken PCs, monitors, printers etc. Keep thinking about it...

I forgot... a bit of nostalga - many years ago, I worked in the factory (SCI) that built the Commodore a1200 (both versions). I don't remember much now, but I can recall that we must have built thousands of the machines. Just found a picture of the motherboard on google, and thought to myself...

Hello! I'm new to this old computer collecting stuff, and already I'm slighly addicted. Last week, I took possesion of my first vintage(ish) computer, a B/W Macintosh Classic (1991), with 4Mb RAM, and 40Mb disk drive. It works (although there's a Adobe Type Manager error on startup, which...