Fuller Master Box for the Speccy arrives, along with the OCP Assembler and the Ian Sinclair book of Machine Code.

Memotech MTX512 with PSU and book arrives today......and it works!

Saved some stuff from the skip today, all Digital apart from a boxed IBM PS/2 laptop, Amtron CPU diagnostic kit (386 PC with tester modules) and a 'Scope, - 2 MicroVAX 2000s for parts, severalteen QBUS VAX and PDP boards, a VT220, VR262 mono monitor, Pro 380 cards, RL02 drive hardware, the list ends there!

Last boot sale of the year! :(
Boxed Sega Master System II with 2 games
Boxed complete Ti Speak & Spell, then I discover I've already got one!

The FAX PCB is actually a Weather FAX receiver for the Spectrum! G4IDE is an amateur radio call sign, and he wrote the software (RTTY) and designed the board. Excellent!

Oddities day today. Picked up an Apricot XEN-i, working Archimedes 4000 and some Acorn & Sinclair bits & bobs, one of which looks like it should be fastened to the ZX81 but it has 'FAX PCB' written on. Hmm. Also got given a big box full o'cables, one or 2 of which might be useful, a splitter cable for the C2N tape recorder that allows 2 to be used at the same time and the 'Ultimate' head cleaner from Ultimate Play The Game :)
My 2 Memotech games turned up yesterday too, Goldmine and Mission Alphatron.

Come across another couple of boxed Spectrums, although one turns out to be the full monty minus polystyrene, but with loads of games. Also find a boxed WHSmith Data recorder and Comcon programmable joystick interface, boxed.
Fixed some broken links to the KIM-1 and ZX81 stuff too. Tch. Computers eh.
Discovered I was a week late to save an attic full of Sord equipment, trouble was it was in Gothenburg, Sweden :(
Doh....my PCW9256s aren't bust at all - I was assuming they were like the PCW16 in that they didn't need boot disks...but they do.
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Boxed MkIII Vic20 joins the Commodore page
Mostly boxed mint Beeb B joins the Acorn page
Another bust PCW9256 too. Good job it was only 3 quid :)

Amstrad PCW9256 added since it was cheap :) Bust though, but it might be fixable.
Mint condition C64E Terminator 2 box set, complete with warranty (expired), readme's and serial number stickers.

More Lisa pix uploaded since she's now running OS 7/7 V3.1, and not half as slow as I'd been led to believe.
Mac Performa 475 and Mac LC475 (essentially the same machine) added to Apple page.

Lisa lives! The video card works smart so more pix uploaded to Lisa2 page (inhabitants -> apple -> lisa2)
Loads of pix uploaded of other stuff, including all of yesterday's haul as well as older things I've only just got round to doing! (commodore Plus/4 springs to mind)

Good boot sale this morning. Boxed Amstrad CPC464 with modulator, manual and joystick, smart condition ZX81 with strange piggy-back CPU, boxed Interstate 1104 2-piece pong, bigger Interstate pong, Atari rodent, a few more Atari Family Curriculum bits o'software, a load of Dragon32 tapes and carts, boxed Commodore Music Maker keyboard and Ms.Pac-Man for the Atari 2600.
Most excellent trade this afternoon with Lee Davison. Museum inhabitants are now swelled by:
Commodore/MOS KIM-1 in case with 3rd party 8K RAM expansion/EPROM blower.....*bounce*
Commodore P500 with fully populated RAM banks - hmm.....:)
Commodore PET 8032.
Tandy FD1000 laptop
MicroProfessor 'Applications' board - smart!
Open University PT501 Microtrainer (serial no is 6969 :o)
BBC Micro Teletext adapter with ROMs and keyboard overlay - only 4 channels though - bah *g*

At last! My spare Lisa video card arrives - *bounce*....now watch it be the PSU that caused the death in the first place.....:o))

Grandstand Firefox F-7 added to Handheld page.
Philips AV7300 TV converter added to Philips page.
2 spare Einstein keyboards added to Tatung page.
Also got a bundle of software including shrinkwrapped Spectrum stuff (HiSoft C, Castle Master), Konami MSX game, C64 carts and an old RS232 breakout box as well as a load of Commodore cables for monitors etc :)

Mac Performa 400 arrives with monitor and CD-ROM. More to follow. Odd how the CD looks like the DEC RRD42.......or is it? :)

Arrrrgh! My long awaited Lisa spares turn up but there's no video card in the box!! Dammit!
Also got a spare Mac LCII and Laserwriter Select printer.

Excellent kit-built Acorn Atom obtained courtesy of Bob Carr. Comes with tapes, huge PSU, schematic and books. Pix to follow.

Started a new counter so I can see my one hit a week :o)

Picked up a load of Digital stuff from a customer who was about to skip the lot! Heresy! *g*
Pix soon. It's on the digital page.
Only managed a couple of pongs over the weekend - guess where they are? Oh yeah, Apple Laserwriter Style too, and I'm currently temporary custodian of another CBM P500, boxed in identical condition to mine and from the same source.

10 boxed Fairchild carts arrive courtesy of Simon Bragg, so they've been catalogued. Found some more Atari ones too.

Catalogued all the Intellivision, Atari & Acetronic carts, new BBC Domesday page plus more pix uploaded. Mattel, Atari, Pong, Acorn and Commodore pages for that lot.

2nd Epson PX-8 arrives, along with a Stack 32K Vic-20 memory upgrade, VIC-1515 printer with manual and 'Trader' for the Vic-20. Most smart! Epson and Commodore pages then.

Boxed Timex Sinclair 1000 arrives from Australia this morning from Tony Molina....well wrapped - you wouldn't think it had come from the US to the UK via Oz! Timex-Sinclair page created then.

Pretty poor weekend; boxed 'Genius' game from 1981 and boxed 'Cue Ball' game from 1982 added to handheld page. The snooker game's endorsed by Alex Higgins! Woo.

Been doing some digging and found the reasons behind the ill-fated Samuria/Elan/Flan/Enterprise name change saga. It's on the Enterprise page
Added some code for you 800x600 people out there so you get a smaller menu that fits on the screen. Even 640x480 people can see it all now! Woo.

Bonanza! Or it would've been if I hadn't have been in a hurry....I *hate* leaving stuff behind! Anyways,
Several mint boxed Electron games to match the retail machine from last week, complete with mint Data recorder plus PSU and manual, Atari 410 recorder.
Voltmace DATABASE cartridge pong, boxed with a couple of boxed carts.
Several atari books and tapes.
Acorn Electron with attached Plus-1, separate Plus-3
Epson PX-8 and printer and I forgot to pick up the bloody PSU....grrr.....,
Acetronic MPU2000 with Invaders cart.....
Acorn, atari, pong and epson pages for that lot.

I won't go into the things I had to ignore! OK then I will. Olivetti PC1 'prodest' with twin drives, Grandstand 4600 pong, boxed Speccy+3 for trade, Commodore 1702 monitor, 2 Amstrad 6128s for trades, Amstrad 464+ for trade, Apple compatible A4 style publishing monitor with cover, several PSUs etc etc....

Several boxed Atari ST games inc. Swiv and Chuck Rock put onto Atari page
SAM Coupe PSU (just, unfortunately :) so MGT page created.
Boxed Amstrad MP3 TV converter onto Amstrad page
Mac LC with monitor, Styluswriter printer, floppies etc. put onto Apple page.
Tested the Commodore P500 and it works nicely, though I haven't managed the sound yet - need to reaquaint meself with BASIC!
More pix added to Acorn, Commodore, Mattel, Multitech, Coleco, MGT, Amstrad, Apple and Handheld pages
Small site overhaul - colours by Becca :o)

Most excellent trade today with Bill Garforth - swapped an Archimedes 3000, monitor and standalone MicroProfessor MPF-1 for a mint boxed Colecovision that would be 100% perfect if it wasn't missing the Donkey Kong cart.....oh well. I can finally add a *machine* to the Coleco page....just need that ADAM now. :)

Monitor frenzy :) Boxed Commodore 1084ST and 1084S added to the Commodore page.
Microvitec Cub 1451DS to be used as a donor for the smashed Enterprise monitor.
Mint retail boxed Acorn Electron which would be perfect if it had the cassette leads.
Bagful of boxed Intellivision games complete with overlays and manuals.
See Acorn, Commodore, Enterprise and Mattel pages then.

UK fuel crisis update! Working from home's odd. I can have the radio on to listen to Scrawn & Lard; the phone isn't constantly ringing, I've got a nice view, I'm in my *own* computer room! Strange.
Anyway, that was earlier on. Now it's 20:00 and I've finally managed to get both Mac SE's shoehorned into one box thus making a working one. It's cost me a CRT (never heard one decompress before :), but it's working. And I now know that the screen from my dead Mac Classic works fine since it's now in a spare Mac Plus!
Discovered my latest Amiga 1200HD is actually a *real* Amiga and not a CBM one, ie back from when Escom owned Amiga for a bit. Change to the Inhabitants page then.
Boxed colecovision coming next week, hopefully, as well as a spare video card and screen for Lisa. Hopefully.

Mac SE arrives in the post, bust. Thanks Post Office! Twats. Anyway, I've got the guts of another SE to transplant so I should end up with a working one.
Got the rest of the MicroProfessor stuff, so there's another 5 or 6 MPF-1's available for the cost of p&p, also picked up a working Philips CM8833MK2.
Commodore MPS1230 boxed obtained last weekend, as well as an odd electronic game called MANIAC, also boxed. 1979 so gods knows what it does. Pix to come soon.
My gf brought me back an Entec Galaxian2 handheld as well as a Mattel American Football handheld from her US jaunt....smart.
This update wasn't done in a hurry, honest.

Not a bad weekend I s'pose. Another boxed Grandstand VEC (different box), boxed Systema TV Boy II and a boxed Colour Binatone TV Master MkIV (orange box). Plus my Intellivoice module arrived from Telegames.
Systema page created then. Rest is on the Pong and Mattel pages.
Also an Amstrad PCW16 obtained in a fit of English weather. It's dry now though, and it still works!

Woohoo! My first international trade arrives yesterday - a Microdigital TK90X courtesy of Luis Pedro Baeza Quevedo of Chile, South America.
The box is a little battered in transit but the machine and associated bits are in one piece, therefore:
Microdigital page created.

Absolute shedload of pix uploaded, 82 to be exact, principally on the commodore, sinclair, atari, texas, sharp, apple, handheld pages.
Forgot about the Apple Newton fax modem too.

Smart weekend - boxed BBC Master 128, boxed Grandstand 3600 pong, another boxed Acetronic MPU1000, another boxed Spectrum+2a (black), a boxed Amstrad CPC6128+ with boxed monitor, part boxed Dragon 32, Commodore 128 and the jewel in the crown - a boxed unused (and unreleased by all accounts) Commodore P500, dated 1983 and with a serial number of 161. So! That'll be acorn, pong, sale, amstrad and commodore pages then!

Mint Colecovision Expansion 1 arrives; box is in German but do I care? :) It looks unused.....Coleco page then.
More pix uploaded.
Forgot about the Atari 800 boxed 16K expansion......

Not quite mint Grandstand Video Entertainment Computer (aka Fairchild Channel F II), Grandstand 5000 and Nintendo-U-Like Chinese machine called Micro Genius added to pong page
Boxed Astro Wars added to handhelds page
2 boxed Atari 2600s plus oodles of games too. That'll be the atari page then.
Bundle of Vic-20 carts added to commodore page

Excellent condition boxed Grandstand SD070 cartridge pong added to the Pong page.
Issue 2 Spectrum in DK'Tronics keyboard put onto Sale page

Saved a couple of Beeb Master Compacts and some boxed Multitech MicroProfessors with options from the skip today. Also with the bundle was a 2nd 6502 processor and a teletext adapter for the Beeb B. Acorn page and Multitech page for those.

Bargain of the week - Mac Plus in travel case with 800K external floppy and loads of disks. Apple page!
Fixed Mac Plus moved to sale page
Multiface 1 removed from sale page when I discover there was 2 Multiface 1s!
*Nearly* finish moving into museum room proper.
More pix uploaded

Woohoo! *bounce*. Got myself listed on woz.org - the homepage of none other than Steve Wozniak himself, co-founder of Apple and creator of the Apple I and ][, arguably the machine that helped redefine personal computing. Understatement: I'm a bit chuffed :o)) Got 4 'W's out of 5 too.

Absolutely mint boxed Amiga 500 "European Computer Of The Year" edition and late 'new-logo' Amiga 1200HD added to commodore page
Forgot about my Atari 400 with 410 tape drive, as well as Arabic Atari VCS clone. Atari page, then. Thanks again to Richard Kilpatrick.

Boxed Multiface 1 added to Sinclair page, therefore unboxed Multiface 1 moved to sale page!
Got another boxful of Beeb B and Master stuff today too.

Boxed Amstrad 464+ added to Amstrad page
Also got a few Sinclair bits, I/F 1, Microdrive, Issue 2 Speccy in Saga Emperor keyboard, carts, boxed Currah Microspeech, Fox joystick controller and a few books.
Just found a Barcode Battler downstairs :)
QL bits I'd forgotten to add: Tandata Q-Mod 12/75 modem, Cumana 3 1/2 floppy i/f and Terminal Emulation s/w.
Also fixed the Mac Colour Classic.....
Handhelds section created - Grandstand boxed Space Invaders game I got for me birthday :)

Hewlett-Packard page added
Couple more Binatone Pongs added to pong page
MicroVAX 2000 added to DEC page
More pix uploaded.

Post Mortem: seems that only the /// keyboard was the major sufferer; I've blown the fuse in the ][c so that's repairable, the blue line on an HP Apollo 9000 workstation's gone the journey, everything else survived.

Got smashed into yesterday bringing a load of Apple stuff home; I love neck braces....
Still, items added to museum:
Apple /// with ProFile
Apple ][ Europlus with 2 floppies
Apple ][gs signed and decicated internally by Steve Wozniak (not the 'Woz' edition). Looks smart with proper GS keyboard.
Apple ][+ with a bundle of cards/books
US Apple ][c that I accidentally fried with 240V power......bunch of arse......
Spare /// for parts; unfortunately it's already given up its keyboard since the good /// got it's own keyboard mashed in the collision. :(
RANA floppy drive, boxed.
Loads of spare parts including field service bits for the ][ and a barrel of cards, books, games etc.
Kudos to Richard Kilpatrick for that lot.......

Mac Colour Classic added to Apple page
2nd spare ZX81 goes to a good home.

More pix uploaded to sinclair, atari, commodore, pong, sale pages
CBS/Coleco page added

Celebrated American Independence day by joining the Computer Museums and Retrocomputing Culture webring!
Guestbook added.

Boxed Speccy 48 moved to sale page. Outer is a bit tatty but the internals are in excellent condition as the pictures show. Comes with software starter pack. Machine doesn't beep for some reason.
Finally got Atic Atac on cassette :)
Annoyance factor 10 - I've spent hours pissing about with the drives on 3 Amstrads only to find the culprit is the monitor not kicking out the 12V! Arse. Still, I've now got 3 working machines thanks to some new rubber bands and a small amount of swearing.
One of the spare ZX81s has just gone too.

Another mint mail-order boxed ZX81 on the Sinclair page.
Looks unused....no plug marks on PSU etc. That's the 12th so there's 2 unboxed ones up for grabs.
Amstrad MP2 modulator for the CPC6128 goes on the Amstrad page
3 ZX81 games/education tapes arrive - QS Asteroids, Sinclair Education 5 and Artic 1K games pack.

Issue 1 Spectrum and original (but built) ZX81 kit added to Sinclair page.
Amiga Action Replay cart and Techno Sound Turbo Amiga stereo sampler
added to Commodore page
Spectrum+3 on sale page now has working disk drive. Pic also.

More pix uploaded.

Apple ][ Europlus, twin floppies and loads of books, software added to Apple page after a visit to rubbish tip hell.
Got a Big Box o' BBC Masters, Bs and Cumana disk drives too from a different location.

Amstrad CPC664 added to Amstrad page. Bust drive electronics though. Or is it the monitor since the power for the drive comes from the 12V port on the front? Could explain why 2 6128s and now the 664 have failed.....
Entrepo Quick Data Drive arrives; unopened condition! Commodore page for that one.

Spectrum + 128K and "Maplins" 16K ZX81 added to Sinclair page. Box of games too.

Amstrad 6128+ with all-important BASIC cart added to Amstrad page. Comes with a box of disks.
Existing 6128+ moved to sale page
Atari 520STfm added to Atari page. Needs a spring for the left SHIFT key though!

Fully boxed Toshiba HX10 on the Toshiba page

Partially boxed Toshiba HX22GB put onto the Toshiba page
Started putting site updates on, though whether anyone reads it is a moot point *g*