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from Wikipedia:
TRS-80 was Tandy Corporation’s desktop microcomputer model line, sold through Tandy’s Radio Shack stores in the late 1970s and early 1980s. The line won popularity with hobbyists, home users, and small-businesses. Tandy Corporation’s leading position in what Byte Magazine called the “1977 Trinity” (Apple, Commodore and Tandy) had much to do with retailing the computer through more than 3000 of its Radio Shack (Tandy in the UK) storefronts.
Notable features of the original TRS-80 included its full-stroke QWERTY keyboard, small size, well-written Floating Point BASIC programming language, an included monitor, and a starting price of $600.
The MC-10 was a short-lived and little-known Tandy computer, similar in appearance to the Sinclair ZX81.
It was a small system based on the Motorola 6803 processor and featured 4 KB of RAM. A 16 KB RAM expansion pack that connected on the back of the unit was offered as an option as was a thermal paper printer. A modified version of the MC-10 was sold in France as the Matra Alice. Programs loaded using a cassette which worked much better than those for the Sinclair.
A magazine was published which offered programs for both the CoCo and MC-10 but very few programs were available for purchase. Programs for the MC-10 were not compatible with the CoCo.
source: wikipedia trs-80.com themc10archive.com
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from Wikipedia:
The Amstrad CPC is a series of 8 bit home computers produced by Amstrad during the 1980s and early 1990s. “CPC” stands for ‘Colour Personal Computer’, although it was possible to purchase a CPC with a green screen (GT64/65) as well as with the standard colour screen (CTM640/644).
In 1990 Amstrad introduced the “Plus” series, 464 and 6128 Plus, which tweaked the hardware and added a cartridge slot to the system. Improvements were made to the video display which saw an increase in palette to 4096 colours and gained a capacity for hardware sprites.
Splitting the display into separate modes and pixel scrolling both became fully supported hardware features. The former was reasonably easy on the non-”Plus” machines, and the latter possible to some degree using clever programming of the existing Motorola 6845.
source: wikipedia
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from Wikipedia:
The Atari 7800 ProSystem, or simply the Atari 7800, is a video game console re-released by Atari Corporation in June 1986.
The original release had occurred two years earlier under Atari Inc. The 7800 was designed to replace Atari Inc.’s unsuccessful Atari 5200 and later to re-establish Atari Corp.’s market supremacy against Nintendo and Sega.
With this system, Atari Inc. addressed all the shortcomings of the Atari 5200: it had simple digital joysticks; it was almost fully backward-compatible with the Atari 2600; and it was affordable (originally priced at US$140).
source: wikipedia
Gallery / Autopsy:
Stuff Donated:
- 1 x Joystick TAC II from Suncom.
- 1 x Commodore 64.
- 1 x Commodore Floppy Drive 1541 II.
- 1 x Compatibile Powersupply for Commodore 64/VIC20.
- 1 x Cabletronic Compatible Powersupply for Commodore Floppy Drive 1541 II.
- 1 x Commodore 64 Cover Protection.
- 2 x Serial Floppy cable.
Thanks to Igor.
from Wikipedia:
The Commodore 64 is an 8-bit home computer released by Commodore International in August, 1982, at a price of 595 USD.
Preceded by the Commodore VIC-20 and Commodore MAX Machine, the C64 features 64 kilobytes (65,536 bytes) of RAM with sound and graphics performance that were superior to IBM-compatible computers of that time.
It is commonly known as the C64 or C=64 and occasionally referred to as CBM 64 (Commodore Business Machines Model number 64), or VIC-64. It has also been affectionately nicknamed the “breadbox” and “bullnose” due to the shape and colour of the first version of its casing.
source: wikipedia
Autopsy:
here my collections of Commodore Floppy Drive.
The Oceanic OC-118N Floppy Drive has a external power supply, one diskette station with one read / write head and a motherboard.
On the motherboard you will find RAM and ROM memory, twice a 6522 VIA and a 6502 processor.
The Oceanic OC-118N disk drive is a smart device, reading and writing works independent of the connected computer.
source: wikipedia richardlagendijk.nl Oceanic OC-118 Manual
ColecoVision RGB Hack:
Photo from #3 to #6 explain how to hack the RGB output signal inside the console.
ColecoVision RGB connector pinout:
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\ o1 o o3 o o5 o o o8 /
\ o o o o o13 o o15 /
\____________________________/
Pin Signal
1 Red Output
3 Green Output
5 Blue Output
8 Ground
13 Composite Synch
15 Audio Output (very low volume)
Scart RGB pinout:
----------------------------21
_| 19 17 15 13 11 9 7 5 3 1 |
| |
| 20 18 16 14 12 10 8 6 4 2 |
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Pin Signal Signal level
1 Right Audio Out
2 Right Audio In
3 Left Audio In
4 Audio Ground
5 Ground (blue)
6 Left Audio Out
7 Blue input (0.7V, 75ohm)
8 Function select/AV control (9.5-12V = AV mode, >10kohm)
9 Ground (green)
10 Reserved Data
11 Green input (0.7V, 75ohm)
12 Reserved Data
13 Ground (red)
14 RGB Blanking
15 Red input (0.7V, 75ohm)
16 RGB switching control (1-3V = RGB mode on, 75ohm)
17 Ground (sync signal)
18 Ground (RGB switching)
19 Composite Out
20 Composite Input (Synch) (as in 1Vpp video signal, 75ohm)
21 Common ground (shield)
Autopsy:
Pal Verison here
from Wikipedia:
The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries’ second generation home video game console which was released in August 1982. The ColecoVision offered arcade-quality graphics and gaming style, the ability to play Atari 2600 video games, and the means to expand the system’s basic hardware.
Released with a catalog of twelve launch titles, with an additional ten games announced for 1982, approximately 125 titles in total were published as ROM cartridges for the system between 1982 and 1984.
source: wikipedia colecovision faq
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Description:
- Country: USA/Europe
- Most Common: Usa
- Rarity: Rare
- Year: 1983
from Wikipedia:
Aquarius is a home computer designed by Radofin and released by Mattel in 1983.
It features a Zilog Z80 microprocessor, a rubber chiclet keyboard, 4K of RAM memory, and a subset of Microsoft BASIC in ROM. It connects to a television set and uses a cassette tape recorder for secondary data storage. A limited number of peripherals, such as a 40-column thermal printer, a 4-color printer/plotter, and a 300 baud modem, were released for the unit.
source: Wikipedia
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This is an all-black version of the Atari 2600 Jr. There is no silver band, and there is only a small rainbow, and the Atari Fuji and “Atari 2600″ appear in white above the rainbow. We believe this version was only sold in Ireland.
from Wikipedia:
The Atari 2600 is a video game console released in October 1977. It is credited with popularizing the use of microprocessor-based hardware and cartridges containing game code, instead of having non-microprocessor dedicated hardware with all games built in.
The first game console to use this format was the Fairchild Channel F. However the Atari 2600 is credited with making the plug-in concept popular among the game-playing public.
Click here for the others pieces of my Atari console Collections.
source: wikipedia atariage.com
Autopsy:
Find 108 hits of the Neo Geo on a single cartridge, all type are present. This cartridge uses a on-screen menu that allows you to choose the game you wish to play.
Features:
- 108 Games on only one cardridge.
- You can change parameter on each game.
- Just hold the player 1 start button down for 5 seconds to return to the game selection menu.
Note:
The Chip with the label erased on Photo #11 is a Atmel AT89S52 datasheet
source: neo-geo.com
Original Stickers from SNK.
autopsy:
Cartridges list:
- Cosmic Avenger by Universal.
- Gorf by Midway.
- Donkey Kong by Nintendo.
- Mr.Do by Universal.
from Wikipedia:
The ColecoVision is Coleco Industries’ second generation home video game console which was released in August 1982. The ColecoVision offered arcade-quality graphics and gaming style, the ability to play Atari 2600 video games, and the means to expand the system’s basic hardware.
Released with a catalog of twelve launch titles, with an additional ten games announced for 1982, approximately 125 titles in total were published as ROM cartridges for the system between 1982 and 1984.
source: wikipedia
autopsy:
This great Tape Recorder it was donated from my Father.
from Wikipedia:
Geloso, founded in 1931 by John Geloso, was an Italian manufacturer of radios, televisions, amplifiers, amateur receivers, audio equipment and component electronics, that had headquarters in Milan, Viale Brenta 29. In 1931 they began to produce not only Radio but also, by choice of John Geloso same, most of the electronic components with which they were built, and over time developing and patenting also many others.
source: radiopistoia.com wikipedia
autopsy:
This is my first Modem, this is a Acoustic coupler modem for Commodore PET but i could use it with a IEEE488 Interface for the Commodore 64.
The Commodore’s 8010 Modem is an IEEE-488 (1978 standard) device which communicates via any standard telephone.
The 8010 Modem meets Bell 103 standards for communication at a fixed rate of 00 BAUD. The telephone interface is acoustic so the modem is portable. This means Commodore computers can communicate with, large computer systems like The Source and MICRONET, and other small computers.
Initially Commodore supplied software will support the following applications, with many more to come.
1) Terminal emulation.
2) Disk file send and receive.
3) Wordpro 3 sequential file send.
4) Hardcopy using Commodore printers.
5) Disk spooling.
A switchable four-section bandpass filter provides out-of-band rejection assuring accurate processing of the input from received carrier, even at signal levels of less than -47 dBm.
Jitter-free data is guaranteed by a soft limiter and phase lock loop discriminator. The carrier detect circuitry prevents the CBM Modem from operating when excessive noise would produce errors or cause marginal operation. This feature also assures accurate teleprocessing connections and inhibits chatter when the received signal fades.
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