Hi, I'm Pat and I'm an amiga-holic *cough* I mean, I'm an avid retro / vintage gamer:
A bit about me:
I mostly do restoration work on all of the below retro consoles/vintage computers(Except PCs and PSx) and am known to sell these as well as mini consoles(both good quality clones and RPi based) and am looking forward to joining the community, sharing whatever knowledge I can from experience, learning from other simularly interested forum members and possibly partaking in some craic.
Other hobbies & interests:
- Restoring and/or modding retro consoles/vintage computers.
- Collecting and selling vinyl, as well as vinyl record accessories like sleeves and cleaning accessories to the Irish marketplace(mostly).
- Selling other various products online, related to my trade, interests & hobbies etc.
- Bedroom DJing(on the back burner until I get a mancave or move my "office" out of the house).
A rough recollection of my computer lineage(Chronologically):
- IBM XT PC - No idea what model, no software, no command prompt skills, now only to be appreciated after it's time(likely ended up in a skip back in the 90s due to non-use!)
Source: Hand me down from Cassidy Travels(were my brother worked) when they were upgrading to Windows in the early 90s
- Commodore C64C (with Joystick, no tape deck) - This time no basic/programming skills, my other bro thought me the GOTO command, and swiftly vacated the house(that was the only command he knew), other brothers friend lent me Terminator... once!
Source: Fred's Fashions (My mother got dibs on this from the back room, because they weren't allowed to sell electronics donations, nice perk!)
- Nintendo NES - My first ever game console! With SMB 1 & 3 and Duck Hunt, among other titles, got rallied for a few years and later traded in at Cash Converters, Malahide Road, Dublin.
Source: Bought myself with my communion money, from a school friend(who sold it to me for a profit after buying it and a big games bundle, from another friend who lived a few doors down), my first real lesson of capitalism
- Packard Bell Club PC - Pentium 1 x86 - First PC I could use! Came with Windows 95, very little RAM & SkiFree! Went to a secondary school open day around '95 and was told by the physics teacher I was lying when I told him my new PC had a Pentium 1!
R.I.P. Mr Cronin (absolute legend), exact same design(incl. monitor) as in Nostalgia Nerds videos ( )
Source: Charcoal Finglas(builder), my father gigged with this character often and did a bit of "horse trading" to get this for "the house", did me a solid at last, after years of hounding
- PS1 - Came only with the "Demo One" disc with Monster Trucks, Crash Bandicoot, thanks be to jaysus.. it was Christmas Day! Many trips and quids spent at Movie Busters, renting games, first buys were Soviet Strike, GTA, Die Hard Trilogy, Disruptor and of course DOOM!
Source: Santa
- Self Build ATX Tower - First and only attempt at building my own PC, came with Gigabyte MOBO(AMD Athlon), a whopping 256MEGS of RAM and seperate ATI Radeon GPU, this was the bees knees at the time and went all the way to 11! -hundred Mhz(without over-clocking
).
Source: A couple of Birthdays+Christmases bundled together
Plus - Up to date a bunch on random various laptops/SFF PCs over the years(nothing senitimental, mostly used for work) and a Sega Megadrive MK II, found in the landlord's attic(thanks Mary!)
Other nothworthy mentions(Lends/swaps/rentals etc over the years that were rallied and much cherrished):
(I only just this week identified the first ever PC I ever used, the Acorn Archimedes, these were brand new, donated to our school back in the late 80s/early 90s when I was only around 6, this computer game me the bug, and I can't wait to get my hands on one these bad boys for restoration(they're not cheap by the looks of it these days), one with the green keys that we had in our primary school, ah memories...
)
Sega Master System, Sega Megadrive Mk1, SNES, Amiga A1200, A500, Atari ST 520FM, USA SNES clone console with NES games built-in(Xtra-vision used to rent these out, back in the day!), old Desktop PC with Windows 3.1(Duke Nukem 1 & Crystal Caves by Apogee Software!) & PS2
If you read this to the end, I suppose, I should be flattered, or concerned
Slainte
EDITS: Grammar & (From IRELAND) + other lends etc that have recently come to mind
A bit about me:
I mostly do restoration work on all of the below retro consoles/vintage computers(Except PCs and PSx) and am known to sell these as well as mini consoles(both good quality clones and RPi based) and am looking forward to joining the community, sharing whatever knowledge I can from experience, learning from other simularly interested forum members and possibly partaking in some craic.
Other hobbies & interests:
- Restoring and/or modding retro consoles/vintage computers.
- Collecting and selling vinyl, as well as vinyl record accessories like sleeves and cleaning accessories to the Irish marketplace(mostly).
- Selling other various products online, related to my trade, interests & hobbies etc.
- Bedroom DJing(on the back burner until I get a mancave or move my "office" out of the house).
A rough recollection of my computer lineage(Chronologically):
- IBM XT PC - No idea what model, no software, no command prompt skills, now only to be appreciated after it's time(likely ended up in a skip back in the 90s due to non-use!)
Source: Hand me down from Cassidy Travels(were my brother worked) when they were upgrading to Windows in the early 90s
- Commodore C64C (with Joystick, no tape deck) - This time no basic/programming skills, my other bro thought me the GOTO command, and swiftly vacated the house(that was the only command he knew), other brothers friend lent me Terminator... once!
Source: Fred's Fashions (My mother got dibs on this from the back room, because they weren't allowed to sell electronics donations, nice perk!)
- Nintendo NES - My first ever game console! With SMB 1 & 3 and Duck Hunt, among other titles, got rallied for a few years and later traded in at Cash Converters, Malahide Road, Dublin.
Source: Bought myself with my communion money, from a school friend(who sold it to me for a profit after buying it and a big games bundle, from another friend who lived a few doors down), my first real lesson of capitalism
- Packard Bell Club PC - Pentium 1 x86 - First PC I could use! Came with Windows 95, very little RAM & SkiFree! Went to a secondary school open day around '95 and was told by the physics teacher I was lying when I told him my new PC had a Pentium 1!
R.I.P. Mr Cronin (absolute legend), exact same design(incl. monitor) as in Nostalgia Nerds videos ( )Source: Charcoal Finglas(builder), my father gigged with this character often and did a bit of "horse trading" to get this for "the house", did me a solid at last, after years of hounding
- PS1 - Came only with the "Demo One" disc with Monster Trucks, Crash Bandicoot, thanks be to jaysus.. it was Christmas Day! Many trips and quids spent at Movie Busters, renting games, first buys were Soviet Strike, GTA, Die Hard Trilogy, Disruptor and of course DOOM!
Source: Santa
- Self Build ATX Tower - First and only attempt at building my own PC, came with Gigabyte MOBO(AMD Athlon), a whopping 256MEGS of RAM and seperate ATI Radeon GPU, this was the bees knees at the time and went all the way to 11! -hundred Mhz(without over-clocking
).Source: A couple of Birthdays+Christmases bundled together
Plus - Up to date a bunch on random various laptops/SFF PCs over the years(nothing senitimental, mostly used for work) and a Sega Megadrive MK II, found in the landlord's attic(thanks Mary!)
Other nothworthy mentions(Lends/swaps/rentals etc over the years that were rallied and much cherrished):
(I only just this week identified the first ever PC I ever used, the Acorn Archimedes, these were brand new, donated to our school back in the late 80s/early 90s when I was only around 6, this computer game me the bug, and I can't wait to get my hands on one these bad boys for restoration(they're not cheap by the looks of it these days), one with the green keys that we had in our primary school, ah memories...
)Sega Master System, Sega Megadrive Mk1, SNES, Amiga A1200, A500, Atari ST 520FM, USA SNES clone console with NES games built-in(Xtra-vision used to rent these out, back in the day!), old Desktop PC with Windows 3.1(Duke Nukem 1 & Crystal Caves by Apogee Software!) & PS2
If you read this to the end, I suppose, I should be flattered, or concerned
Slainte
EDITS: Grammar & (From IRELAND) + other lends etc that have recently come to mind
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