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Vintage Computers Any vintage computer systems, calculators, video games etc., but with an emphasis on 1980s and earlier equipment. |
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7th Jan 2022, 11:11 pm | #21 |
Heptode
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Re: Book recommendation Computers that Made Britain by Tim Danton
No Apricot on the list then, that was a British PC I used in the mid-80's. Unfortunately it was not quite IBM-PC compatible although it ran Wordstar and similar software.
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7th Jan 2022, 11:53 pm | #22 | |
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Re: Book recommendation Computers that Made Britain by Tim Danton
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https://www.vintage-radio.net/forum/...5&postcount=21 Unfortunately we weren't able to help him as much as we would have liked. Since then, several people have turned up with very good, complete original examples of the machine he was looking for photos of. |
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8th Jan 2022, 12:54 pm | #23 | |
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Re: Book recommendation Computers that Made Britain by Tim Danton
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9th Jan 2022, 10:09 am | #24 |
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Re: Book recommendation Computers that Made Britain by Tim Danton
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13th Jan 2022, 12:56 am | #25 |
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Re: Book recommendation Computers that Made Britain by Tim Danton
OK,
so not exactly a PC, but how about my GEC 4070 Minicomputer? Not a single chip any more complicated than a TTL jobbie, but originally capable of some good work, and very expensive. |
13th Jan 2022, 1:33 am | #26 |
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Re: Book recommendation Computers that Made Britain by Tim Danton
Just searched for your earlier post, did you get it working?
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13th Jan 2022, 8:33 pm | #27 |
Heptode
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Re: Book recommendation Computers that Made Britain by Tim Danton
That takes me back. I used a GEC 4180 running OS4000 for some time while at University. I think these were popular as nodes on the JANET X25 network at the time.
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