Latest Additions
This list shows the computers, calculators, game consoles and peripherals that have been added to our collection recently.
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This is an engineering sample of the original ARM processor.
Platform: Commodore Amiga
The code wheel is another industry attempt to curb software piracy, they vary somewhat in how they work, but are genuinely similar in operation.
Platform: ZX Spectrum
With software piracy rampant throughout schools playgrounds, games companies were trying to find ways to give software more protection against this.
Minaturised version of the PlayStation console to released to celebrate the original machine's 25th Anniversary.
Platform: Nintendo Gameboy Advance
The e-card reader is a bar code scanner that plugs into the cartridge slot and allows, It was released in Japan in December 2001, with a North American release following in September 2002, though in far more limited numbers.
In 1991, Psion launched their first clamshell format organiser, the Series 3, which was a major advance on the previous Psion Organiser models.
Platform: Apple II
This was a device to copy the machine's memory to floppy disk.
This console is a minature version of the popular C64, it has a good selection of 64 built in games which can be added to via an SD card.
Platform: 3.5 inch floppy disk
This Zenith Data Systems 3.5-inch floppy disk drive was a peripheral for the Zenith MinisPort laptop. The laptop can with a built-in 2-inch floppy disk drive, as well as a port for the 3.5 inch disk d...
Platform: 2 inch floppy disk
The two-inch floppy disk, made by Fuji Film, was introduced in 1989.
Platform: Nintendo Wii
This was originally packaged in with the legend of Zelda Skyward Sword Special Edition.
Platform: Ninteno Wii
This is the same as the regular white controller in function, but coloured gold.
This is a word processor, that uses an electronic typewriter as an in and out device.
Platform: Sinclair Spectrum
In the 1980s, many different ways of preventing software piracy had been tried, from fast loaders that made tape to tape copying more difficult, but at the expense of reliability, to colour code charts.
The Dixel 2000 is a 35mm film scanner and transmitter, with a fully built in image manipulation suite that predates photoshop applications by some years.
This is an early example of the Produx mechanical pocket calculator which was manufactured in Germany in the 1930s.
One of the many valve racks that would have been installed in a LEO II computer.
Platform: Acorn Archimedes, PC, Apple
A quad speed CD-Rom drive for PC, Apple and Acorn Archimedes computers.
Platform: Sinclair, C64, VIC-20, MSX
The Hudson Soft Joy Card is a joypad released in Japan for the MSX series of home computers.
Platform: IBM
Dr. Genius is a scanner and graphics package with an accompanying three button mouse for use with IBM PC, XT, AT and Personal System/2....
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A replacement metal spool for the Sinclair printer.
Sports video unit featuring 6 games when used with the Binatone TV gun.
This is an XT clone, Its specification is similar to the Amstrad PC20 (aka Sinclair PC200) or Schneider Euro PC: System unit contains motherboard, keyboard, power supply and floppy drives.
The Amstrad PC1640 was based around an 8 MHz Intel 8086 processor and was a very successful entry level PC bought by many small and medium sized businesses.
The Northstar Advantage was a 4 MHz, Z80A based computer, with 64K of user RAM, and 16K of graphics RAM.
Platform: PC DOS
A HP-branded printer stand with space underneath for listing paper, which allowed a continuous feed of paper into the printer.
The IQ-9000 is an electronic personal organiser with a touchscreen interface.
Platform: Philips CD-I
A mechanical mouse that was released with the CD-i 180, the first model in the CD-i range.
Platform: Philips CD-I
A remote controller for the Phillips CD-i.
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A 5.25" internal hard disk drive by Mircoscience. Model HH612B. ...
Platform: Sinclair ZX Spectrum
This expansion provides 8-bit input and output ports for parallel transfer when connected to the Maplin Spectrum Input/Output Controller Module.
Platform: Playstation, PS One, Playstation 2
A pair of cordless controllers compatible with the Playstation, PS One and Playstation 2.
Platform: Dragon 32
The Mace is an editor and assembler for the Dragon 32.
This early model Acorn Electron contains an issue one board with a 16K EPROM marked "ELK 036" replacing the lower BASIC ROM.
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Transformer used to step down mains 240v to USA mains 115v for running computers which have power supplies designed to run on 115v (e.
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Various S-100 boards in anti static bags donated by Brian Crank (Cards came out of Brian Crank's Altair 8800b) ...
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Various S-100 boards in anti static bags donated by Brian Crank (Cards came out of Brian Crank's Altair 8800b) ...
This is badged as an Ajax machine, but is soley an Interstate machine sold in the Netherlands.
Mike Volker and Ronald Craig were the founders of this company, they were the alumni of Waterloo Engineering, they were to produce some of the earliest video terminals.
Platform: Sinclair ZX Spectrum
The Slomo is designed to slow and even stop the speed of the ZXSpectrum.
Platform: Sinclair ZX Spectrum
The Fuller Box Master Unit combines both the Fuller Box Games Unit and the Orator into a single unit.
Platform: IBM PC, Apple
The PD200e is an optical drive for DOS, Windows, OS/2 and Apple Macintosh computers.
Platform: BBC Master
The MultiOS system allows the user to switch your BBC Master 128 operating system between the original 3.
Platform: Sega Dreamcast
The Dreameye is a digital camera released for the Sega Dreamcast, it was released in Japan in 2000.
Platform: PC DOS
This is a University project mouse, that runs on three wheels, two for up and down, (the second wheel is there to keep the mouse balanced).
A machine in the huge range of workstation and server machines.
This is a portable LCD game and calculator, it contains 16 different titles, such as Flying Bees and Shooting Attack.
This machine was derived from an unreleased machine known as the Chandra Chandra was the codename for another RIOS design, and again it failed to get beyond the prototype stage due to IBM's pessimism about it's marketability.
Platform: Tadpole
A docking station for a Tadpole Laptop, The station allows a monitor, keyboard, mouse and printer to be connected.
