Latest Additions
This list shows the computers, calculators, game consoles and peripherals that have been added to our collection recently.
The PalmPilot Professional from 3COM is a personal digital assistant.
Platform: Acorn Pocket Book
RS232 serial interface and PocketFS 2 filing system software that allows files to be easily copied between the Acorn Pocket Book and an Archimedes computer.
Help Mario negotiate pipes and tunnels, as he guides cement through a factory, without crushing his friends.
The third Archimedes model Acorn launched in July 1989 was the A440/1.
Platform: Nintendo Famicom
This is a 72 key peripheral that along with the Nintendo BASIC cartridge, and the Matsushita/Panasonic Data Recorder (sold separately), allowed the Famicom to become the fully fledged computer that it...
Platform: Nintendo Famicom
The robot accessory is designed to work with software with each game coming with original pieces to add to the robot.
Platform: Casio Loopy
Along with the release of the Loopy, Casio released an accessory called the Magical Shop (or more specifically the Video Seal Word Processor Magical Shop).
After releasing the Life Touch tablet in 2010, this is a similarly specced machine, but with a full qwerty keyboard, as well as the 7'' resistive touch screen, the machine runs off the Nvidia Tegra Dual Core processor.
This is a arcade shooter, designed and programmed by Dona Bailey and Ed Logg, it was designed to appeal to female players, as it was not biased to either gender.
Capcom's defining one on one ighter, that introduced many elements carried on in the genre today, such as being able to fight another human opponent, rather than just computer ones.
The Digi Casse is a handheld console developed by Bandai, released mainly in Japan, although it did get launched in Europe for a brief period in 1986.
The TV Jack series of consoles were brought to market by Bandai, beginning in 1977 with the TV Jack 1000, The 5000 is a rare early console released in 1978, retailing 19,800 Yen.
This is a table top version of the arcade machine, very popular in bars and clubs, as drinks could be stood on them as the players enjoyed the game.
Anyone who has visited the museum will recognise the cab, as it stands in the front foyet, and every minute the intro sequence starts with a sampled roar of an alien.
Taito's classic up the screen shooter should need no introduction to any gamer.
Lyle Rains, Ed Logg and Dominic Walsh, the cabs were brought to the Japanese market by Taito, and the rest of the world by Atari.
The V.Smile TV Learning System is an educational game system. It can take two controllers, and takes cartridges (called Smartridges) in the front. It also has a caddy on top of the machine for storing...
Pong console with six games, Target 1, Target 2, Tennis, Hockey, Squash and Solo Automatic scoring, speed and angle controls on the controller, individual rest controls, and with 6x AA battery or main...
Platform: Commodore 64
The 1581 disk drive is a quite uncommon 3.
The Sinclair Executive calculator was the world's first slimline pocket calculator.
Victor Savyuk saw the success of the NES in Japan and the western markets, and wanted to bring his own machines to the crumbling USSR.
Developed by Midway, the arcade subsidiary of Bally, using the new chipset designed in partnership with Dave Nutting Associates.
This pack has the new Dual shock pad included.
All the function of a regular PS2, but including ethernet access out of the box (the original needing a network adaptor.
This is the redesign of the original machine, it is slightly smaller, has a brighter screen, a much more symetrical shape, and now has an open cartridge slot at the back.
The Timex Sinclair 2068 was a computer produced by Timex Sinclair, a joint-venture between Timex Corporation and Sinclair Research.
Platform: Block Smartwatch
This was a Kickstarter concept project, the idea was to have a watch where modules could be changed out, such as weather, heart rate, GPS and others.
This Spectrum clone has much in common with the real machine spec wise, the plate on the back describes a Z80A Processor (USA) with 48K of RAM and a 16K Rom.
The Video Genie System (or simply Genie) was a series of computers produced by Hong Kong-based manufacturer EACA in the early 1980s.
One of the most recognisable electronic hand held games of its era, the game plays a very good version of Space Invaders, albeit with only three lines of aliens, it has excellent controls.
Three years after the release of the BBC Microcomputer Model A and B, the BBC Microcomputer Model B+ was released in mid-1985.
As well as Europe, other territories that were very strong for Sega and the Master System, their partner in the region Tectoy would manufacture the consoles up to 2014, making it the longest console production run in history.
The HP-21 was a scientific calculator produced by Hewlwtt Packard between 1975 and 1978.
The iBook G3/300 (Original/Clamshell), codenamed P1, features a 300 MHz PowerPC 750 (G3) processor, 32 MB or 64 MB of RAM, a 3.
The SC-3000 is a computerised version of the SG-1000 console.
The Commodore 64 Games System (often abbreviated C64GS) was the cartridge-based game console version of the popular Commodore 64 home computer.
1998 model in the Aptiva series, which uses the AMD K6-2 processor, complete with speakers and sub woofer...
The Philips Videopac+ G7400 was released in limited quantities in 1983, and only in Europe.
Platform: PC
This is the package for the PC/AT version...
Platform: Commodore 16
For the Commodore 264 family of computers, The Commodore 116, Plus 4 and C16...
This is the first and only major rebuild of the Nintendo Famicom and is the second Japanese version of the NES.
DIP was co-founded by three ex-Psion employees, David Frodsham, Ian Cullimore and Peter Baldwin - their first-name initials providing the firm's name, though it got a more appropriate, business-friendly full name soon after.
This computer arrived at the museum with almost no information as to its history, so we put out an appeal on social media.
The Commodore MAX was a home computer made by Commodore International and released in 1982.
Platform: Cambridge Z88
PC Link 2 is the Cambridge Computer PC link program.
Platform: Cambridge Z88
This is a 128K eprom card for the Cambridge Z88 Portable computer.
Platform: Cambridge Z88
This unit was created to wipe the eprom cards that the Z88 used.
