Subj : What's in your retro closet?
To   : FSXNET.FSX_RETRO
From : Nigel Reed
Date : Mon Feb 19 2024 23:01:00

Growing up in England, there were a number of popular home compusters,
ZX80 and ZX81 were popular kit and prebuilt systems that were
affordable. The Vic20 comes along with the BBC Micro, ZX Spectrum, the
Commodore 64 and TI99/4a were all popular also.

I owned the ZX81 which I sold after getting my Vic-20. The Vic was
eventually sold to fund the purchase of a BBC Micro which I collected a
large amount of equipment for including a hard drive, modem, sideways
ram with real time clock, AMX mouse, floppy drives, a bunch of
ROMS...and let me parents take it all to the tip after I moved to the
US.

Who would want some old 8 bit tat that barely worked?

30 years later. I DO!!!!

After finding a BBC for sale in the US, I started to regain my
collection, picking up a floppy drive, a modern real time clock
solution, gotek, so I don't need a hard drive, AMX mouse, printer and
other bits and bobs, I decided to start collecting other stuff I owned
or touched in my childhood.

I have two broken 48K ZX Spectrums that I'm working on repairing, a UK
Commodore 64 and a US Vic-20. Recently I picked up a TI44/9a and a
TRS-80 which is as close as I could get to the Video Genie we had at
school.

Right now I'm on the look out for games for the TI99/4a, if anyone has
any to sell. I would also like to pick up another UK computer system,
the Dragon 32 and I'll eventually get a ZX81 but in no rush to fill
that little hole. I'm also looking for a V23 auto answer modem for the
BBC Micro so that'd be like a Pace Nightingale, Magic Modem or WS2000.

So, what is in your retro collection and what bits are you looking for?
We might be able to help each other out, if not directly then via other
groups we know.

Oh yes, I picked up an Osborne 1, the worlds first luggable computer.
That definitely needs a bit of TLC.
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