This man in suburban Syndey has turned his home into a veritable Museum of Computing History. I get the feeling he’s a little bonkers, but he has the right because he’s old and Australian. His house is chock full of tape drives, ancient IBMs, PDP-8s, a Lisa, and so on. There’s a great slideshow; see if you can spot anything from your own computing history (I want my Mac Classic back).
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Devin Coldewey
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November 24, 2008
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This is awesome! The first family computer I ever had was a TI99 which I was too young to do anything with other than play number munchers and hunt the wumpus. We then moved to a Commodore 64, which was mostly for playing games as well, although I did write my first code ever on it. I think it was in basic and would translate English (or really anything I typed)into Pig Latin, which is pretty wicked coding for an 8 year old.
On the Mac Classic thing, I remember in high school my networking essentials teacher had a classic II (color I think?) which he had made into a fish tank.
a Macquarium!
TI-99, Hunt The Wumpus, programming in BASIC, the memories are flooding back.
My first was a TRS-80, with a floppy drive and a 5MB hard drive, and I thought it was the bomb. There was a “portable” Compaq (I forget the model #) and TI-99 and a IBM in there somewhere too.