Subj : Re: What's in your retro closet?
To   : Nigel Reed
From : Niels Haedecke
Date : Mon Feb 26 2024 18:50:20

Over the past four decades the following machines turned up in my collection,
although in the beginning it was not a "retro collection" but a bunch of old
hardware that I had no use for by the early 1990s but which I decided to keep
for good. In the early 2000s I started to pick up orphaned C64s, Amigas etc.

Right now, I have several C64s and Commodore 1541s safely stowed away.
There's a C128D (plastic version, not CR) and two Amiga 1200s along with an
Amiga 500 and a TI 99/4A in the shelf. Next to those rests a rare "Ice Felix"
ZX Spectrum clone from romania that a romanian collegue of mine once gave to
me. And next to that there's a VIC-20 in a VC-1020 metal case, full-blown with
80 column card, 32K RAM expansion and port expander - a gift I got from my
collegues at my former employer when I left. A Sony HB-75 MSX machine sums it
up in that shelf.
  
Last but not least there's mid-size plasic box full of Sharp Pocket PCs and
peripherals - tape interfaces, "docking bays" with thermal printer - because I
loved those little handhelds and one of them is the reason I'm into all this
madness...
 
In recent years I found my pleasure in building (soldering together) kits of
8 bit machines, some of them being replicas of originals, other being modern
"new retro" systems like Spencer Owen's RC2014. You learn a lot from that.

Nigel Reed wrote to FSXNET.FSX_RETRO:
NR> So, what is in your retro collection and what bits are you looking for?
NR> We might be able to help each other out, if not directly then via other
NR> groups we know.
NR> 
NR> Oh yes, I picked up an Osborne 1, the worlds first luggable computer.
NR> That definitely needs a bit of TLC.
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NR> 


    Greetings, Niels Haedecke

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