Hello! I`m Simon. I`m collecting the kit I used to own - still hunting a couple of items of kit. Portable CD player - Phillips that has a dark-trans cover over the disc and an AM/FM radio. Eventually - I kind of found it on this website.... http://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/a-very-different-magnavox-portable-cd-player-1990.5986/ Anyone know the model number? Sony walkman. was silver - but thats all I can remember till I see it again. I`ve been looking at photos on google but nothing yet triggered my memeory! So far, I have collected (All Sony) LBT-D905 Stack MPD-850D - Laser Disc Player SLV-E80 - VHS DVP-S325 and a Commodore CDTV The LBT is a stack in its self The rest is in a stack of its own too! I`ll take some photos of my kit and post in the relevant places.
Welcome Simon, that's an interesting collection of equipment you have, good luck finding the Philips, I've never seen one up close before.
Welcome. When you have collected them all you could take a picture like this http://www.stereo2go.com/topic/index.php?content_oid=499377108813478439&board_oid=193392314111653326 More recently I bought again the same model of Prinz camera that I got in 1975. Never mind the fact that it takes unobtainable 126 film and took rubbish pictures it was nice to see one again. The only place I have been to in Leicester is Granby Halls. Back in the mid 1980s they used to have a really big Amateur Radio Rally there each year, which my local club (in Bristol) would organise a coach trip to. I might have mentioned before in the forum "the Chinese radio" complete with Pandas on the dial which I saw there one year and now wish I had bought. Just 35 years ago seeing something "Made in China" was as surprising as it would be to see something "Made in North Korea" today. How times have changed. p.s. Retromancave has just started retoring a CDTV I don't recall ever seeing one back in the day, but have had a couple of Philips CDi s.
Hi Longman The CDTV I have is the second one I`ve had. I had my first on when it was available, that I purchased second hand. This one was bought from ebay as untested - but it did work back then; I`ve had it for about 8 years now. As for RMC - I know Neil, and I`ve had a good chat about our CDTV`s over the last few days. And Leicster... Granby Halls has gone! Its now a carpark for Leicester Tigers Rugby grounds and confrence centre. And... A little more about me. I`ve always had an interest in Electronics, and always a fan of Sony, hence I use to have a lot of it. Now older, I`m a fan of `stuff that was`, hence collecting my old kit again and fixing it up where required, and due to that, I`m also part of the team at the Retro Computer Museum (Yes we have CDI`s there!)
You will probably enjoy this thread then http://stereo2go.com/forums/threads/old-computers-prev-not-your-conventional-cassette-player.1581/ It was interesting to see machines from France that we never got to see in the U.K. I have undoubtedly had more computers than I have had boomboxes. Since the mid 1980s I have been going to Amateur Radio Rallies like the one I mentioned and there has always been a lot of cross over between the two, although quite a lot of sellers there have no feelings of nostalgia and just want to offload their old "junk". Two of my best buys were a working rubber keyed Spectrum complete with cassette recorder for £1 and a working Atari ST for £3. That was all before the rise of Ebay though. Recently you were far more likely to find some Pentium 4 based system for £20. p.s. Seeing your comment about Sony I am wondering if you have a HitBit. I'm old enough to remember when those were the latest thing at the Bristol Sony Centre.
Nice! We have a HitBit (or 3) at the museum - based on the MSX system - of which there were many manufacturers - that we have many of. Do you still have the spectrum and ST? My collection of old computers: CDTV with scsi and 8mb ram upgrade Amiga 600 with hard drvie Amiga 500 with CR rom A570, 64mb, hard drive and 68030 CPU Want - Amiga 1200, that I`m close to acquiring Amiga 2000 stock - but will be upgrading Amiga 3000ish - All my amiga 3000`s (7 in total) are from Virtuality machines that I collect and restore - therefore have no top shell or front panel. I have more Amiga 3000`s than I have VR machines, so I`ve set 2 up. A: made a top shell at work, and 3D printed a front panel. B: going into my Checkmate 1500+ case - I had to make a mod kit to fit it though. And more recent. ZX Spectrum Next - a new spectum with modern features (SD card, HDMI, WiFi) The Retro Computer Museum has over 60 systems out to play on, plus about 4000 in the stores. And we think - the largest game collection in the world! over 40000 titles over all our systems!
Yes. These are the computers I still have although some haven't been powered up for at least ten years 1980s purchases ZX81 - Bought as a kit and built by myself in 1981. In December I took it into the dpeartment where I was working and my boss was so impressed he bought himself one "for his Kids Christmas present" 2 x Toshiba HX10 MSX The first one bought new in about 1984, + the matching Music Keyboard bought in 1985 3 x Atari ST / STE + a couple of hard drives I bought my first new in 1990 but sold it when I got an STE. I already had a synthesizer so the ST was the obvious choice for me. 1990s and onwards Purchases Rubber Key Spectrum. Spectrum +2 Commodore 64 and 64C 2 x Amiga 600 2 x Amiga 1200 I bought the first thinking I was going to use it for video titling but never got a working genlock Various PC & laptops including a Toshiba Libretto bought new in 1999, a red Sony Vaio that was my favourite for years until I failed to get it running Windows 10, and a Macbook Pro 2012 with expanded memory and SSD. The most recent purchase was a Zemmix Mini FPGA based MSX although I'm not sure why other than it being cheaper than an MSX2 Computers that came and went were Texas TI99/4A - bought new between the ZX81 and MSX, performance was woeful without the optional memory expansion so I only kept it about six months, which was long enough to write a program to successfully teach myself morse code. Sharp MZ700 Dragon 32 Several BBC micros Research Machines 380Z BT Tonto Two more Amiga 1200s. In hindsight I should have held onto these as they would now be worth far more than I sold them for. I had to look up what the Virtuality system was. Back in the 1980s a research department at British Aerospace was trying to do something similar using two CRT based camcorder viewfinders. I visited the Swindon Computer Museum many years ago just before they moved. Computers have fascinated me since they got a Busicom 2017 at school in the mid 1970s but I'm not particularly into gaming. I have an N64 and Sega Dreamcast both bought new with a load of games but which I quickly got bored with since I usually get stuck on the early levels with any games that rely on hand-eye coordination. Anyway I spend most of the day at work staring at screens.
It is the same as this. One day I will have to make a video of my as this video is basically just the built in demo . Mine was bought in Boots when they had an AV department. With a price reduction from £249 to £99 (back in 1985) I couldn't resist. I have the cartridge for the more professional Yamaha equivalent but need to make an adapter to use it without the specific Yamaha computer.
