Retro & Vintage Computers, old consoles and classic gaming.
About me
Hello and thank you for visiting retrocomputers.eu!
My name is Andy and i’m a collector of vintage and retro computers. I live near Peterborough, England. I have a mixture of systems in my collection from many manufactures including Amstrad, Acorn, Commodore, Sega, Research Machines, Nintendo, and Tatung. My first ever computer I had access to at home was a Commodore VIC-20, then a Amstrad CPC6128 then onto PCs and Apple Macintosh. I have been ‘retro computing’ for about 3 years now.
The first computer I used at school was a BBC Model B – a proper vintage computer. When I moved up into secondary school, we used RM Nimbus PC-186. (Not so cool machines! Well, apart from some games like Trains)
I am also the volenteer co-ordinator for the “The Centre for Computing History” which is a computing museum based near Cambridge. I was at VCF 2010 at Bletchley Park last year, and many smaller events in 2011. You can read more about the museum on their website http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/ .
If you would like to donate a machine to me or to the museum in Haverhill, do feel free to contact me. You can contact me either on Twitter or via my email address. Whatever you do, don’t take them to the tip or your local recycling centre – they will just crush them up and use the metal! (And that would be a real shame!!!)
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Small world. You can`t have them but I still use two Amiga 1200s daily in my music studio!
One is heading out to France with me to one of our houses out there when I go back in February.
Not much of an Amiga scene in france, sadly.I will ask my brother in the USa if he has any TIs hanging around.
Ivan
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hi sometimes wish to live in the UK, i’m from Portugal, an it’s hard to find the old stuff in my countryme and my brother collect old computers like you, but our collection is like a drop on the ocean near yours, our favorite “baby” are the amigas, thank God i still have my 1200 for 16 years now and he still works, also have two amiga 500, and we bought recently another 1200 on ebay. uk. we have a dream…it’s the amiga 4000 but it’s so hard to get…
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oops, i forget to tell you about the rest of our collection, we also have two Commodore 64, our first computer it’a about 20 years now since my father bought it for us ,and is still running the other i bought it from a friend. we also have the ZX spectrum 48k, one 48k plus, one 128k+, one 128k +2, one timex sinclair 2048k.
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Hi Andy,
Thanks for stopping by. I like your blog. My first computer was a Texas Instruments TI994A. I wish I still had it – not necessarily for use, just for nostalgia.