Old tech found in drawers...

[Flip Martian]

Also still got an Atari STFM upgraded to 2megs RAM, with a 50 meg hard disk (which is about 12" by 12"!) and dedicated Philips colour monitor (about 14" I think). Last time I switched it on everything except the HD still worked fine.

[Morningside]

droopsnoot said:

...I've got a few of those as well. And my old Compukit UK101 is still in the loft somewhere.

Very nice!!

21TonyK said:

Just went for a rummage and found an Amstrad 8086 that I forgot about and a Sinclair QL with microdrives!

Cleaned up a Startac and currently looking for a charger for it.

Also discovered an HP LaserJet II in a bin bag.

Time to get a skip!

A skip? WHAT???!! I hope you are kidding.

[SwissJonese]

I've just found my old Electronic games in the attic (also still got my Spectrum, Nintendo N64, Sega Megadrive)

[Neil H]

SwissJonese said:

I've just found my old Electronic games in the attic (also still got my Spectrum, Nintendo N64, Sega Megadrive)

The boxed Game & Watch could be worth a couple hundred quid. I sold two I had in my drawer a few years ago and were basically brand new, and made about £350.

I still have my original Amiga 500 and a ton of games, I don’t plan to ever get rid of it! Must be almost 30 years old now. This is one of my favourites though:



My mate had one when I was at school, probably 1992/93 ish and it blew us all away. IIRC it cost him about £450 from a grey importer, which was serious money for a school kid back then! I ended up picking this up from Ebay a few years ago, brand new.

[SistersofPercy]

Steamer said:

if you've got any of the Dizzy games for that you can be my best friend!! (The CPC was my first computer)

although I was going to say the guys with the Amigas in the loft: leave them there.

I got mine out a few years back and played Supercars / Stunt car driver / test drive / all the Lotus games... And none of them were as good as I rembered them . Some things are best left in the loft.

Not actually sure tbh, there is about 80 games for it so I'll have a look through when I get home. My favourite was always Sultans Maze as it was the first game I ever played. It also took 25 minutes to load

Have a couple of boxed Amigas and a BBC Model B in the loft along with games (Leisure Suit Larry, what a game!) Also the usual Mega Drives etc They aren't going anywhere.

[SwissJonese]

Neil H said:

My mate had one when I was at school, probably 1992/93 ish and it blew us all away. IIRC it cost him about £450 from a grey importer, which was serious money for a school kid back then! I ended up picking this up from Ebay a few years ago, brand new.

I tried to buy a full sized Neo Geo a few years ago, but prices where still too strong. I did have a Sega GameGear which was like that, wish I had kept it was brilliant.

[Guvernator]

Anyone got an Atari Lynx or Jaguar lying around by any chance? Both were way ahead of their time IMO and probably worth a pretty penny now as they are quite rare.

[Neil H]

SwissJonese said:

I tried to buy a full sized Neo Geo a few years ago, but prices where still too strong. I did have a Sega GameGear which was like that, wish I had kept it was brilliant.

Ah yes, the Neo Geo still has a big cult following. I have a Game gear too, stashed away somewhere! Plus an Atari Lynx, original Gameboy among others.

[Vitorio]

SwissJonese said:

I tried to buy a full sized Neo Geo a few years ago, but prices where still too strong. I did have a Sega GameGear which was like that, wish I had kept it was brilliant.

I had a Neo Geo Pocket Color for a while, paid €100 for it imported from hong kong with 10 games

Quite an impressive little machine that was, the 8-way digital stick makes me wonder why every other console maker keeps making stty D-pad (especially you nintendo!), also, 40 (!) hours of playtime on two AA batteries, the GBC managed 10, the GBA 12-15

[Guvernator]

SwissJonese said:

I tried to buy a full sized Neo Geo a few years ago, but prices where still too strong. I did have a Sega GameGear which was like that, wish I had kept it was brilliant.

I remember them being unbelievably expensive back in the day, rich mate had one and I'm sure I remember most\all of the games being imports and costing him about £150 each back when that was a lot of money too. I did get to play it a few times though and thinking wow this is exactly like the arcades at the time. In fact didn't a lot of arcades just have the Neo Geo hardware stuffed in a cabinet?

[Ynox]

Guvernator said:

Anyone got an Atari Lynx or Jaguar lying around by any chance? Both were way ahead of their time IMO and probably worth a pretty penny now as they are quite rare.

One of the guys I work with has both. With you on the rarity.

Out of stuff in this thread, I've got a couple of MiniDisc players and a few old phones hanging around.

[Flip Martian]

I did plug my Atari STFM in a couple of years ago and played some of the games (I still have all the floppies). They were good fun but I know why my eyesight deteriorated in my late 20s - the refresh rate on the Philips monitor is awful! If you look at the display with your peripheral vision you can actually see the screen flicker. Countless thousands of hours on the Atari I spent playing games and doing music (the latter was the reason I bought the thing for but games took over...) before I bought a PC in 1996 or so.

[msremmert]

anonymous said:

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Ohh I have two of these! One is tatty after I spent the 90s playing on it but a while back I found a brand new one in a charity shop for £3 all boxed up and even had the original battery in the box. Not sure what to do with it but I'll probably just keep it because I like it.

I'm a network engineer and general sys admin bh and the amount of old tech I'm sure that I've still got boxed away in draws would boggle even me.

[Neil H]

Guvernator said:

I remember them being unbelievably expensive back in the day, rich mate had one and I'm sure I remember most\all of the games being imports and costing him about £150 each back when that was a lot of money too. I did get to play it a few times though and thinking wow this is exactly like the arcades at the time. In fact didn't a lot of arcades just have the Neo Geo hardware stuffed in a cabinet?

They did although I think the arcade system was different to the home system. That said, the games on the home system were essentially arcade PCBs in cartridges (which is why they were ~£100 each!).

[Steamer]

SistersofPercy said:

Steamer said:

if you've got any of the Dizzy games for that you can be my best friend!! (The CPC was my first computer)

although I was going to say the guys with the Amigas in the loft: leave them there.

I got mine out a few years back and played Supercars / Stunt car driver / test drive / all the Lotus games... And none of them were as good as I rembered them . Some things are best left in the loft.

Not actually sure tbh, there is about 80 games for it so I'll have a look through when I get home. My favourite was always Sultans Maze as it was the first game I ever played. It also took 25 minutes to load

Have a couple of boxed Amigas and a BBC Model B in the loft along with games (Leisure Suit Larry, what a game!) Also the usual Mega Drives etc They aren't going anywhere.

Arrrr yes, the 'flashing border of anticipation' while a game loaded (or not - as was often the case) First 'big box' game I bought for my cpc was Outrun.. think it only successfully loaded a handful of times.

All I have left as a reminder is my CPC464 mug (as found on ebay along with all the other home computers of that era) personalise them with your favorite game title:

[MrB.]

A bit of a thread hijack, but I have an iPod Gen4 that doesn't seem to work. I'm assuming that the battery died after sitting unused for a while whist I bought newer ones. Anyway, from memory, these are a hard-state memory, not flash, so I'm assuming all the music I originally put on there is still there of I get the battery replaced. Has anyone used iPod Doctors? They say they can't send out batteries for me to do it as the Royal Mail won't allow lithium batteries to be sent through mail, but if I send them the unit they can do it for me.

Has anyone done this, and if so, how was it?

[Terry Barr]

Old Sony Minidisk player still in my desk Sinclair QL and Brother HR5 printer still here, both in original boxes. Still worked the last time I tried them.

[S11Steve]

I treasured this when I was pre-teen, and it recently emerged from the parents loft when they moved house. It was fired up, tested, and made me rather nostalgic, before being packed up and bound for my own loft now. When the kids are a little older and less destructive, I may get it set up to show how far games have progressed.

[PoopahScoopah]

NinjaPower said:

Sony cassette Walkman which is apparently made of magnesium and is 100% chrome on the outside, and barely any bigger than the cassette inside it. Super cool. I wonder if it's worth anything now?? I suspect it was horrendously expensive new.

Pretty sure that's the same as one I had around 1999-2001. It was a limited addition, possibly some sort of Walkman anniversary thing. A figure of £150 sticks in my mind, which was a lot for a Walkman then. Did yours have a wired remote with a blue-backlit display?

Lost mine when my car was broken in to outside Exeter Uni and backpack stolen. Only had a change of clothes and that Walkman in it. They lucked out! bds!

[Bluedot]

Love this thread.
I spent a couple of years at one of my first jobs fixing this sort of stuff, Spectrums, ZX81's, Commodore 64's, Commodore Vics, BBC's, Amstrad CPC's etc
I can still remember the transistor in the Spectrum that used to blow, it was a ZTX650, it cost a few pence to replace and we charged £19.99 as a flat fee fix
Funny the stuff you remember.