Greetings, visitor to my humble little computer jamboree page!
To many computers are simply tools, like a can opener, or a vacuum
cleaner. To others, they are more than simply tools. More than simply toys,
even. Computers are not simply collections of electronic and mechanical parts,
put together solely to execute instructions for us.
Computers create
their own virtual worlds, are the basis of virtual communities, and in a sense
have their own personalities. Anyone who was around during the hobbyist days of
computing knows well the sense of community shared by owners of any particular
brand of microcomputer, whether it be a Commodore 64 or an Apple II. Users of
larger systems, running UNIX and VMS, even created a whole language around their
'computer culture'. To me, collecting computers perhaps has more to do with my
fascination with the culture surrounding these machines than it does with the
1's and 0's beneath it all. Of course, the 1's and the 0's can sometimes be
fascinating in their own right! :-)
Apple IIe
Apple Macintosh
Apple Macintosh Plus
Apple Macintosh IIci
Apple Macintosh Powerbook 145B
Apple Macintosh LC 475
Apple Power Macintosh 6100
Atari 800XL
Atari 520STFM
Commodore PET Model 4032
Commodore SuperPET SP9000
Commodore VIC 20
Commodore 64
Commodore plus/4
Commodore 128D
Commodore Amiga 1000
Commodore Amiga 2000
Dell Dimension XPS P60
Digital MicroVAX 2000
Digital VAXstation 4000 VLC
Digital AlphaStation 200 4/166
Digital PC 5510 LP
Hewlett-Packard 9000 Model 712/60
Hewlett-Packard 9000 Model 712/80
Hewlett-Packard 9000 Model 712/100
IBM RS/6000 7006-42T
IBM ThinkPad 760E
IBM ThinkPad 380Z
IBM ThinkPad T21
IBM ThinkPad R40
IBM ThinkPad T60
Silicon Graphics Indigo2
Silicon Graphics Octane
Sun SPARCstation 1
Sun SPARCstation LX
Sun SPARCstation 5
Toshiba Satellite 2130CS
3Com 3C588 MultiConnect Repeater
Epson LQ-2550 dot matrix printer
Kinetics FastPath
NCD 19r X Terminal
Toshiba XM-5100A CD-ROM drive