Vintage Computer Collector

PC World magazine has an interesting article on celebrities and their vintage computer endorsements.  The article has copies of the actual print ads and links to the commercials on YouTube.

Read the article here

The Computer History Museum now has a YouTube page that consolidates all of their video from past lecture and presentations in one location.  Some personal computing highlights are a lecture by Steve Wozniak and the Commodore 64 - 25th Anniversary Celebration; both are about an hour and a half.

http://www.youtube.com/computerhistory

I received a pack containing five Commodore Vic-20 cartridges today.  Four games and an 8K RAM Cartridge.  The games I received are Pirates’ Cove (which I already have), Gorf, Pin Ball, and Demon Attack from Imagic.  The Pin Ball requires paddle which I don’t have yet; I’ll have to put them on my wish list.

My 16K RAM Cartridge for the Commodore Vic-20 arrived today.  Now I have plenty of room to write programs.

I received two packages containing seven game cartridges. I got three arcade games and four adventure games. The three arcade style games are Mole Attack, Super Smash, and Omega Race. The four adventure games are Pirate’s Cove, The Count, Adventure Land and VooDoo Castle. All four of the adventure games were designed by Scott Adams.

The strange thing about these adventure games is they are launched by typing SYS 32592 at a command prompt. Why not just have the game launch on start? Why not type something like “Start” to launch the program?

I just added a forum to site.  There are many section for discussing various aspects of vintage computing and vintage computer collection.  Please join the forum and help this new community grow.

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I picked up a book on the history of Commodore computer, entitled On the Edge: the Spectacular Rise and Fall of Commodore. The book was recommended by The Retrobits Podcast, so I decided to pick it up. I haven’t read it yet but it sound interesting. you can get you copy from Amazon for under $20.

I decided to take a break from Ebay and buy my next computer from an actual vendor. I found an antique dealer that was selling a Commodore 128 with power supply in the box. I got it for a good price and I am really happy with it.

I think I have all of the Commodore computer that I want right now, so I guess it is time to move onto Apple and Atari.

My Commodore 64C arrived today.  I didn’t come with a power supply, but since most of the Commodore peripheral are interchangeable I don’t need an individual power supply for this computer immediately.  I can always pick one up later.

I bought three TRS-80 Color Computers on Ebay and they finally arrived, unfortunately they weren’t in really good shape.  They all work, so if nothing else I have a good supply of parts.  I didn’t pay very much for them so I’m not upset.  I also got a good pair of joysticks that will really help out when I get some games.