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Things on my wish list

  • Anything that runs MIPS, PowerPC or Alpha Windows NT 4
  • A Nintendo Entertainment System
  • A Nintendo N64
  • A Sega Mega CD
  • A Sega 32X
  • A Sega Saturn
  • A Sega Dreamcast
  • An Acorn Archimedes A3000, A3xx or A4xx with RISC OS 2
  • An Atari Falcon

Things I Have

(that I might be prepared to part with for the right money or an interesting swap)

This basically serves as a reminder to me of what I have in the cupboard.

  • HP Z1 Workstation
    • Core i9-9900 CPU
    • 32 GB RAM
    • NVME 512 GB SSD
    • SATA BD-ROM / DVD Rewriter
    • SATA 4TB HDD
    • Gigabit Ethernet
    • PCI-Express nVidia Quadro P620
    • PopOS 22.04
  • Dell Precision T1700 Workstation
    • Core i5-4590 CPU
    • 32 GB RAM
    • SATA Slimline DVD-ROM
  • Lenovo Thinkcentre Tower
    • Intel Core i3-4130
    • 4 GB RAM
    • SATA DVD-ROM drive
    • SATA 500 GB HDD
  • Dell Precision T3400 Workstation
    • Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.0 GHz
    • 8 GB RAM
    • PNY Quadro 600
    • SATA 120 GB SSD
    • 3.5" DS/HD Floppy Drive
    • PCI Adaptec AHA-2940UW SCSI Host Bus Adapter
    • PCI GPIB Card
    • Windows XP Pro 32-bit (activated with OEM BIOS key)
  • Generic PC Tower
    • Abit BE6 Slot-1 Mainboard, with Intel 440BX chipset
    • Slot-1 Intel Pentium III @ 450 MHz
    • 128 MB PC100 SDRAM
    • IDE 9 GB Quantum Fireball
    • IDE HP 8200 "CD-Writer Plus" CD-RW drive
    • 3.5" DS/HD Floppy Drive
    • 5.25" HD Floppy Drive
    • AGP Diamond Viper V770 Ultra (nVidia Riva TNT2 Ultra)
    • PCI Linksys LNE100 10/100 NIC
    • PCI NEC USB 2.0 Card
    • ISA PicoGUS
    • ISA Creative Labs Sound Blaster AWE64 CT4500
  • Acorn BBC Master
    • PiTube Direct second-CPU (6502, Z80, 80286, etc)
    • External 3.5" DS/HD Floppy Drive (only DS/DD supported)
  • Atari 1040STFM
    • 1987 TOS 1.02
    • 1 MB RAM
    • 3.5" DS/DD Floppy Drive
    • RGB SCART Cable
  • Atari 520ST in Lighthouse Tower Power case
    • 5.25" DS/HD Floppy Drive (in the Pentium 3, currently)
    • 3.5" DS/HD Floppy Drive
    • 3.5" DS/DD Floppy Drive
    • Lighthouse Floppy Switcher board
    • Astec PSU (dead) and Meanwell PSU
    • AT-SPEED 80286 upgrade
    • 4 MB RAM upgrade
    • HD Floppy upgrade
  • Sun Ultra 80
    • 3x UltraSPARC II CPUs @ 450 MHz (plus a faulty one)
    • 3 GB RAM
    • Sun Creator 3D Graphics (13W3 out)
    • SCSI 9.1 GB HDD (SCA)
    • Sun Keyboard and Mouse
    • Solaris 7
  • Sun SPARCstation 20
    • SM61 60 MHz SuperSPARC with SuperCache
    • 64 MB RAM
    • SunGX Graphics
    • SCSI 2.1 GB Seagate Barracuda drive (SCA)
    • NeXTSTEP 3.3 for SPARC
  • Sun SPARCstation 20
    • 2x RT620 Ross HyperSPARC modules @ 150 MHz
    • 128 MB RAM
    • SunGX Graphics
    • SCSI 2.1 GB Seagate Barracuda drive (SCA)
    • Solaris 2.6
  • Sun SunFire V100
    • 19" rackmount
    • Sun UltraSPARC-IIe 500 MHz
    • 1 GB RAM
    • Takes EIDE disks
  • SGI Power Indigo 2
    • MIPS R8000 @ 75 MHz
    • 64 MB RAM
    • XZ (Elan GR3) Graphics (two-slot)
    • SCSI 9.1 GB IBM Ultrastar HDD (SCA, with 50-pin adaptor)
    • On-board Audio, Ethernet and SCSI
    • IRIX 6.2
  • HP 9000 Model 340
    • Motorola 68030 CPU and 68882 FPU @ 16.7 MHz
    • 16 MB RAM
    • High-Res (1280x1024) Colour Graphics board (3x BNC)
    • 10base-2 Ethernet
    • HIL Keyboard/Mouse
    • Diskless (uses external HP-IB disk drives)
  • HP 7000 Model 705
    • PA-7000 @ 35 MHz
    • 48 MB RAM
    • Integrated Graphics with VGA out
    • SCSI 1.05 GB Seagate HDD (50-pin)
    • HIL Keyboard/Mouse (shared with Model 340)
  • HP 9000 Model 712/60
    • PA-7100LC @ 60 MHz
    • 80 MB RAM
    • Integrated Graphics with VGA out
    • SCSI 2.1 GB Seagate Barracuda HDD (SCA, with 50-pin adapter)
    • NeXTSTEP 3.3 for SPARC
  • HP 9000 Visualize B132L+
    • PA-7300LC @ 132 MHz
    • 128MB RAM
    • Integrated Graphics with VESA EVC out
    • SCSI 18 GB HDD (68-pin)
    • DDS2 Tape Drive + 2x tapes
    • HP-UX 10.20
  • HP 9000 Visualize C3000
    • PA-8500 @ 400 MHz
    • 2 GB RAM
    • HP FX5Pro 3D Graphics with DVI and VGA out
    • SCSI 9.1 GB HDD (SCA)
    • HP-UX 11.00
  • Apple PowerMac 7200/90
    • PowerPC 601 @ 90 MHz
    • 64 MB RAM
    • SCSI 4.3 GB Quantum Fireball HDD (50-pin)
    • 4x Apple SCSI CD-ROM
    • MacOS 7.6
  • DEC MicroVAX 3100
    • KA41D Processor
    • 20 MB? Rodime SCSI HDD
    • 104 MB Seagate SCSI HDD
    • Dead PSU
  • IBM RS/6000 Model 7012
    • 20 MHz POWER CPU
    • 32 MB RAM?
    • Graphics card with 3W3 output
    • SCSI Card
    • Dead PSU
  • Amstrad ALT386
    • 4 MB RAM
    • Missing HDD
    • Broken FDD
  • Random PC stuff
    • PCI-X Adaptec 29320ALP (68 pin internal, bootable)
    • PCI Adaptec AVA-2902I SCSI card (50 pin internal, non-bootable)
    • PCI dual-port RS-232 card
    • PCI 56k Fax/Modem
    • PCI Hauppauge WinTV
    • ISA generic C-Media CMI8330 sound card
    • Connor 520 MB IDE Hard Drive
    • Lots of SCSI hard drives
  • Yamaha Aventage RX-A1020 7.2 AV Receiver
  • Yamaha CDX-493 CD Player
  • Raspberry Pi 500+
  • PiCade (Raspberry Pi 4 powered arcade joystick)
  • Sony MDS-JE510 Minidisc player/recorder (broken)
  • Tesco Hudl
  • Terrasic DE10-Nano
  • Terrasic DE10-Lite
  • Terrasic DE0-Nano
  • Altera MAX10 dev kit
  • Panasonic KX-P1123 24-pin dot matrix printer
  • Dell U2711 27" QuadHD monitor
    • DisplayPort In (2560x1440)
    • 2x DVI-D In (Single-Link, 1920x1200 max)
    • 15 kHz PAL (+NTSC?) Composite Video In
    • 15 kHz YPbPr Component Video In
    • SVGA/15 kHz VGA In, with Sync on Green
    • HDMI In (TV modes only, 1920x1080 max)
  • Two Dell 1908FP 19" 5:4 1280x1024 TFTs
    • VGA In (support Sync on Green)
    • DVI-D In
    • 4 port USB 2.0 Hub
  • Viewsonic VP171b 17" 5:4 1280x1024 TFT
    • 2x VGA In (support Sync on Green)
    • DVI-D In
  • Benq DL2215 19" Full-HD VGA/DVI LCD
  • Apple Multi Scan 17" CRT Display
  • Panasonic Viera TX-L26X10B 26" HD Ready LCD with RGB SCART
  • Linsar 14" 4:3 LCD with RGB SCART
  • Goodmans CRT TV/DVD player
    • With S-Video and RGB SCART inputs
  • Tenma 72-10505 dual-output power supply
  • Duratool desoldering gun
  • Precision Gold A55KJ soldering iron
  • Picoscope 2205MSO USB 2.0 oscilloscope and signal analyser
  • Edifier R1010BT amplified Bluetooth bookshelf speakers
  • Two Monotrons (and three spare PCBs)
  • A Neotron 32 (and four spare PCBs)
  • Four Neotron Picos rev 1.x
  • TP-Link Archer AX50 Router
  • Bluetooth Receiver/Amplifier
  • Two Eltax Monitor III bookshelf speakers

Things I have that I will always keep

Again, this is mainly just a reminder for me.

  • Amstrad PCW9512
    • Gotek fitted as Drive A:
    • Original 80-track DS/DD CF2-DD 3" drive is Drive B:
    • Runs CP/M Plus and Locoscript 2
    • Original Daisywheel printer (with new hammer arm)
    • Currently dead :/
  • Acorn RiscPC 700 twin-slice Desktop/Tower
    • Armv3 ARM710
    • Acorn PC Second Processor card, with TI 486 SXL-40
    • 1 MiB VRAM
    • 64 MiB DRAM
    • RISC OS 3.6
    • 1GB IDE Hard Drive
    • IDE CD-ROM drive
    • 3.5" DS/HD Floppy Drive
    • iCubed Ethernet Card
    • Four podule riser
  • Sega Megadrive
    • Earthworm Jim 2
    • Sega Mega Games 6 Vol 3.
      • Columns
      • Revenge of Shinobi
      • Sega Soccer
      • Super Monaco GP
      • Sonic the Hedgehog
      • Streets of Rage
    • Ecco the Dolphin
    • Mickey Mouse in Castle of Illusion
    • Tiny Toon Adventures
    • Sonic the Hedgehog 2
    • Mystic Defender
  • Sega Master System II
    • 2x Control Pad
    • Control Stick
    • Winter Olympics (unboxed)
    • Desert Strike (unboxed)
    • Crash Dummies (unboxed)
    • Dracula (unboxed)
    • E-SWAT (unboxed)
    • Ayrton Senna's Super Monaco GPII (unboxed)
    • The Lucky Dime Caper starring Donald Duck (unboxed)
    • Rampart (unboxed)
    • Moonwalker (unboxed)
    • Heavyweight Champ (unboxed)
    • Sonic the Hedgehog
  • Microsoft XBox (plus spare)
    • 2x Duke Controllers
    • 2x S Controllers
    • 2x Third-party controllers
    • Too many games to list
  • Super NES
    • Street Fighter II
    • Super Mario World
  • Nintendo Wii
    • 2x Wiimotes with motion adapters
    • 2x Gamecube Controllers
    • Too many games to list
  • Sony PlayStation (Original)
  • Sony PlayStation 2 (Slimline)
    • 2x DualShock 2 Controllers
    • Too many games to list
  • Sony PlayStation 3 (80GB)
    • 2x DualShock 3 Controllers
    • Too many games to list
  • Sony PlayStation 4
    • 2x DualShock 4 Controllers
    • Too many games to list
  • Nintendo Switch 2
  • RC2014 Mini with Mini CP/M Upgrade
  • A Gigatron
  • A Mk1 Raspberry Pi Model B
    • Bought on day of release
    • Box is signed by Eben Upton, Rob Bishop and Jack Laing
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