The model of the Death Star was digitized, animated, and displayed using the Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) PDP-11 Vector General series of minicomputers
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Weekend retro setup. Commodore 128D with 1571 5.25” drive and 1581 3.5” drive with 1084D monitor in 80 column mode
This was a setup for die for on the 80’s
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he HP 150 was Hewlett Packard’s attempt to produce a user friendly office computer. It is an MS-DOS based system, but is not IBM compatible. It made use of function keys and the built in touch screen to attempt to produce easy to use software
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The Acorn BBC model A was the successor of the Acorn Atom and its first name was Acorn Proton. It was a very popular computer in the UK and was widely used in schools, but it didn’t have great success elsewhere
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The Atari ST is a line of home computers from Atari Corporation and the successor to the Atari 8-bit family. Atari ST was the first home computer to had a bitmap color GUI. The 1040ST in 1986, was the first computer to ship with a 1MB of RAM
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The Apple IIGS was designed in response to the Amiga 1000 and Atari 520ST computers & could be considered a cross between the Mac & Apple II (it can’t use Mac programs). It was and still is, a quantum leap for the Apple II line
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I just received a new item for my personal old computer collection, a fully functional Amstrad PPC640
Just need to do a complete deep cleaning process as well as a plastic restoration for taking out the yellowing of the case
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The Commodore PET 2001 was a very successful machine. Four models were made: early 4KB models, the PET 2001-8N with 8 KB RAM, PET 2001-16N with 16 KB RAM and the PET 2001-32N with 32K RAM
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MFP-II Micro Professor
After the MPF-1 educational systems, Multitech (which eventually became Acer in 1987) conceived the MPF-II computer, a more advanced computer supposed to be compatible with the Apple 2.
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Mattel Aquarius Computer
When the Keyboard Component project was canceled, Mattel searched in a hurry to produce a small and cheap computer
The Mattel Aquarius used a version of the Microsoft Basic. When used on Basic, only get 1.7 KB available
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The legendary Apple I
The computer was easier to use than the Altair: notably, the Apple 1 had a keyboard connector and could display characters on a TV whereas the Altair used LEDs for display. The display rate was very slow 60/seg
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The SDK-85 was a complete 8085A microcomputer system on a single board including ROM and RAM memory, 24 key hexadecimal keyboard, a 6 digit LED display, I/O connections and an expansion area allowing memory and I/O expansion
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Atari 2600
The first commercial fully success game console of the history
Although the Atari VCS is not the first video game console ever, it will become a star while beginning in November of 1977
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