Retro

…which should read retrocomputing and retrogaming.

.: Retrocomputing :.

Here is a short history of what kind of computers entered in my life (not at work):

Commodore 64 (1983?)

The greatest home computer of all times.

Sorry, no picture available, only memories. You should go to the emulators section.

Amiga 2000 (1986-1991)

My first serious and expandable personal computer. Started with a single floppy, then dual floppy and then… a SCSI card (A2091?) with a 100Mb hard drive !!!

Amiga 4000 (1991-1998)

The best computer ever. Lots of fun, lots of technologies, ahead of his time and, even now, a competitive piece of machinery.

A detailed description of my hardware will appear here RSN.

In 1996-7 two new pieces of history came to my attention: an Amiga 600 and a Commodore 128 with 1571 floppy disk drive.

The Amiga 600 was purple painted (just to remind an SGI Indigo2) and equipped with an used 40Mb 2.5″ hard drive. It has only 2 Mb of chip RAM.

Due to the lack of processor/disk performance I had to buy the next PC to speed up my thesis (written in LaTeX of course) compile times.

Self assembled PC 1: “harry” (february 1998-present)

Harry
 
 

This is the PC where I finished my thesis, under Red Hat Linux. After the serious stuff was over it ran Windows 98 for a while.

Now the same hardware is serving these pages and it’s online since 2003.

It’s a VIA motherboard with an AMD K6 200 MHz processor and 320 Mb RAM running of course Linux.

It’s protected by an APC UPS.

Self assembled PC 2: “ryan” (?-january 2003?)

Mainly a desktop workstation in a middletower case.

Hardware: VIA motherboard with an AMD Athlon 1 GHz. Lot of troubles with the onboard USB chipset (damn VIA).Replaced with a good Sitecom USB 2.0 controller.

Self assembled PC 3: “ryan” (february 2003?-january 2006-?)

Mainly a desktop workstation in a middletower case.

Hardware: ASUS A7N8X-E Deluxe, Athlon XP 3000+, 1.5 Gb RAM, 2x SATA disks (280 Gb total).

This motherboard died at the end of january and was replaced with a low cost one.

Dell PC: “ryan” (may 2006-?)

Mainly a desktop workstation in a middletower case. I decided to buy a branded PC to have 3 years of support, all included (also bundled with software, Win XP Pro+Office Basic).
Hardware: Dell 5150 + 19″ LCD monitor, dual DVD (reader + burner), Intel Pentium D 820, 2 Gb RAM, 160 Gb SATA disk.

Protected by a MicroEdge 1200 UPS.

.: Retrogaming :.

Atari VCS 2600 (1982?)

Game console.

Sorry, no picture available, only memories. You should go to the emulators section.

.: Emulators :.

TBD

.: Links :.

Nuremberg: Toys Museum, Atari 2600 and Vectrex!
 
 

In this image you can see a Vectrex console and an Atari 2600 at the Toys museum in Nuremberg.