A leading figure in the worlds of technology, science and business, Dr Hauser has agreed to take on this important role 30 years after the company he co-founded – Acorn Computers – unveiled the BBC Micro, the machine which, along with the Sinclair ZX Spectrum, epitomised the British home computer boom of the early 1980s.
Category: Old Computers
Its all about the old computers and consoles.
Tony Sale, Colossus computer conservationist, dies.
Tony Sale, the brilliant engineer who led the rebuild of Colossus, the first modern computer, has died aged 80. The mammoth project to recreate the
Want to buy a BBC Micro? Read this!
Michelle wanted to buy a Acorn BBC Model B. She decided to buy one from Retro Clinic. She is very pleased with her purchase! So,
Sega Dreamcast – Crazy Taxi video
Short HD video of the demo mode and some actual (bad!) gameplay by me. Dreamcast was hooked up to my LCD monitor via a VGA
RCM Open Day Video – May 2011
Here is a short video I put together. See if you can spot the rarer machines including the Sord, Dragon 64 and the Thomson MO5.
Addition – Amstrad NC100 Notepad
Another bargain courtesy of eBay. The Amstrad NC100 was an A4-size, portable Z80-based computer, released by Amstrad in1992. It featured 64 KB of RAM, the Protext word
An Open Letter to the Twitterverse
Please help us to build a top class computer museum in Cambridge in the United Kingdom! We have raised £474.24 since this appeal went live earlier
Some new Archimedes games
Picked up some more Acorn Archimedes games the other day. They are… U.I.M Arcade Soccer Quazer Holed Out The Olympics Diggers E-Type Extra 100 miles Chocks
Apple Macintosh IIci
First new photo of 2011 – the Apple Macintosh IIci. This one has a 68030 CPU at 25Mhz, 20Mb of RAM and a 80Mb SCSI hard drive. Its currently running System 7.5.5. This model was released in September 1989.
Retro gaming and geek gifts – Perfect christmas gifts!
Do you love your geek? Don’t have a clue what to buy them for Christmas? Well, The Centre for Computing History has a shop! You