Latest Additions
This list shows the computers, calculators, game consoles and peripherals that have been added to our collection recently.
The Pladia was developed under the name BA-X and was never released outside of Japan It was intended for a young audience and it's small library of 37 titles contained many edutainment titles, such as...
Platform: Sinclair QL
Badged Monitor for the Sinclair QL Computer...
Platform: Tadpole
A docking station for a Tadpole Laptop, The station allows a fixed hard disk, a slot for an additional removeable hard disk, floppy disk, CD-ROM, and has rear panel connectors for keyboard, mouse, and...
Sinclair chose the Spanish company Investrónica who were a subsidiary of El Corte Ingles, a department store group, to be their Spanish distributor.
This is a full Grundy Newbrain system with the 'oil rig' expansion unit, 'foot breaker' PSU, dual floppies, memory expansion and disk controller.
Platform: Nintendo Entertainment System
Sold as part of a top end pack for the Nintendo Entertainment system, Rob was a robotic friend, who would perform tasks when connected to a NES and games such as Gyromite.
This was a handheld console, released in 1999 by Bandai, and designed by Gunpei Yokoi, who formally worked for Nintendo.
Released late in 2000, the Pikachu edition is often wrongly thought to be a pack in console for the new Hey You Pikachu game, it was in fact not sold as a pack with that game.
The Intertec Superbrain was first sold by Intertec in 1979.
Platform: televideo
TeleVideo Corporation is a U.S. company that achieved its peak of success in the early 1980s producing computer terminals. TeleVideo was founded in 1979 by K. Philip Hwang, a Utah State University gra...
Released late in 2000, the Pikachu edition is often wrongly thought to be a pack in console for the new Hey You Pikachu game, it was in fact not sold as a pack with that game.
This was a CP/M business machine, and awas sold with either one or two floppy drives, and a single board Z80 design, and was designed for the market share of the IBM Deskwriter, costing a lot less, in...
The Ohio Scientific Superboard II was one of the first successful single-board micros.
Released late in 2000, the Pokemon edition is often wrongly thought to be a pack in console for the new Hey You Pikachu game, it was in fact not sold as a pack with that game.
The C64 G is the last model of the famous micro, and as well as having a much lighter case, it returns to the bread bin shape of the original, abandoning the revised angled shape of the C64 C.
After the enormous success of the Playstation, Sony were not going to rest on their laurels, despite its rival Sega launching their Dreamcast a more than a year early than Sony would unleash the Plays...
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After the enormous success of the Playstation, Sony were not going to rest on their laurels, despite its rival Sega launching their Dreamcast a more than a year early than Sony would unleash the Plays.
Platform: CD-i
An oversized trackball device for the CD-i.
The Sovereign was one of the last calculators to be released by Sinclair before the company refocused on the personal computer market.
The "Color TV-Game Racing 112" was released on June 8th, 1978; the console is by far the largest machine Nintendo has made, and is a birds eye view car racing game.
CR Fever Jyuunishi [Model SP] / FEVER BAR SP ZODIAC Pachinko Machine Jyuunishi means the zodiac in Japanese, and refers to the animals displayed on the digital screen during gameplay.
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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.
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.
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-inch internal hard disk drive by Microscience. Model HH612B....
