Retro Computer Wiki:About

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 recently helped out at the Retro Reunited / Acorn World held in Huddersfield. I was also at VCF 2010 at Bletchley Park. You can read more about the museum on their website http://www.computinghistory.org.uk/ .

The next event that I will be at will be Replay in Blackpool. This event will be held in November 2011.

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. What ever 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!!!)