My basement is a museum.

Today I went into my basement in search of model paint so I could destroy yet another model with my el-cheap-o brushes. After I second of looking around I realised that my basement is a museum of personal computing history!
In corners, in boxes, stacked upon each other, ancient home computers. And I mean ancient, even a 1979 Apple II+ ! There's a commodore 64, a Tandy CoCo, a TRS-80, a PET, a sinclair - IBM PS-2, Atari 600XL, and much more! (including my other Kaypro, which I finally found disks for)

Anybody else have the ancients hiding away in their basements?

we just have our familys VERY 1st computer a very old Packard Bell *do they even make computers anymore* i don't even know the model number on that one, only thats its gotta before 1990 or 1991

Originally posted by Marc04
we just have our familys VERY 1st computer a very old Packard Bell *do they even make computers anymore* i don't even know the model number on that one, only thats its gotta before 1990 or 1991


I got a packard bell 386 amd a 486DX 33 or somethin :bigthumb:

I think packard bell became hewlett packard which became hp. not sure though, but i got a Laser 486 and a few old Gateway 2000s. I even got one of the first cd-roms.

Originally posted by audi&benz
I think packard bell became hewlett packard which became hp. not sure though, but i got a Laser 486 and a few old Gateway 2000s. I even got one of the first cd-roms.

Nope, they are different companies and were operating at the same time. Packard Bell stopped operating in the United State in the late 90s and continued to operate in Europe. I don't think they are still in business.

I had a museum of old parts and computers, but I sold them all on eBay except for an original Crative Labs Sound Blaster and four Pentium 1 computers.

Aaaah, the memories :) Alleycat on the 286 xt, running at a furious 2.77Mhz, with a harddisk of 20MB which was so large.

But what have we here:

- MSX1 with taperecorder (1984?) (you have to wait 1 hour before you can play a crappy game, or program a game which takes about 1 complete day)
- Sparcstation 4 (1994) (not that old, but nice nonetheless.)
- Proliant 1000 server (19??) (a server with a 486 processor, we should try to run servers with that immense power nowadays :lol: )
- PowerMac 6500 (1994?) (it still runs great, Linux on it, nice computer)
- few 486s (robust computers, I use them for a lot of things: router/firewall, printserver).
Among them is a Tulip pc, the only computer manufacturer we have in our country.

The rest is modern computers.