Oh no, not another computer museum!

Detail from Byte magazine April 1981.
The cover article is about "Future Computing"

This is an alphabetic list of the computers in the museum. Because of space limitations,
most of them are stored in boxes with all documentation and peripherials. The only display is this virtual museum.
The most interesting ones will get a page. If I find time to create it.

As the main focus of the museum is on quality and not on quantity, don't expect to see the list below to grow fast. More likely the information on the computers on the list will expand. I might even drop some "unintereresting" machines (and trade them for information I do want).

• - Apple //c
• - Acorn Atom The machine Acorn made before the better known BBC. The manual is partly on-line.
• - Alcyane An early and little known line of computers from France.
• - COMX35 the RCA 1802 based computer
• - DAI Personal Computer with Memotech tape drive
• Digital MINC-11 A compact PDP-11/23 with measurement interfaces
• Digital MiniMINC A compact, budget PDP-11
• Epson HX-20 The mother of all laptops.
• Epson PX-4 Successor of the HX-20 using PX-8 technology.
• - Epson Geneva PX-8 Adding on-line doc and software when time permits.
• Epson PX-16 Epsons 8086 variant of the PX-4. Doubles as cash register development system..
• Epson QX-10 Epsons main CP/M computer.
• Epson TF-20 Bootable Disk Unit for HX-20, PX-8 and PX-4
• * Hand Held Products - Advanced Pocket Computer a Psion Organiser II OEM
• - IBM Convertible IBM introduces 3 1/2" floppy disks into the PC world (1986).
• - IBM Portable IBM introduces a handle into the PC world (1985).
• ? IBM Personal Computer RT IBM introduces a Risc machine
• LNW 80 Model 1 with System expansion, RAM selector, etc. My first serious computer. Lots of doc on line.
• Microprofessor MPF-1 with speech and printer modules
• - Olivetti M10 An unknown member of the Kyocera family from Olivetti.
• - Olivetti M15 A 80c88 laptop from Olivetti.
• - Philips portable P2000C CP/M computer
• - Sharp MZ-731/MZ-821. The "clean machine" (basic was loaded from tape)
• - Sharp PC-5000 An early portable MS-DOS machine. Great bubble memory application!
• - Pentasonic PROF 80 a French TRS-80 model I clone, with color graphics board and CP/M extension.
• - Sinclair ZX80 with 3KByte RAM extension. On-line version of the operating manual.
• * Tandy TRS-80 Model 1
• - Tandy TRS-80 Model II
• Tandy TRS-80 model 4p
• - Tandy Model 200 The successor of the M100 from Kyocera origin. With a larger LCD screen.

Items marked with an - are not or no longer part of the physical collection.

Virtual library overview. Contains HTML and scanned/PDF versions

Some interesting mirrored sites (only locally)

Current set of "official" copies of this site:

• At my ISP. Here is no virtual library present, the needed space (~1.4 GByte) is not available.
• Locally. This is the most complete one including the virtual library. But probably also the slowest.
• The mirror of the comp/ part at http://electrickery.hosting.philpem.me.uk/

Interesting parts doc:

• CompuData core memory board (preliminary)
• bubble memory information
• 3D-printer assisted study of Zuse Z1/Z2/Z4 mechanical memory and logic gates
• AST 4 Port Card data & software (IBM PC ISA card with four serial ports)
• Western Digital WD1002-05 Winchester/Floppy Controller data sheet
• Turbo Pascal 3.0 reference manual
• Floppy archiving tools
• Various unsorted but interesting documentation

Software projects

• DCF77 serial port demo for Linux
• DiscFerret floppy archival tool
• An Sanguino based device to read PALs and PROMs

Last updated: 2022-07-11

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