Anybody know of a computer "museum" site?

yalborap · Post by **yalborap** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:24 pm

Okay folks, I'm looking for some kind of computer museum site. You know, the places where you've got a few pictures of an ancient computer, some info, and if you're lucky they've got a link to some kind of emulator. So, anybody know of one?

gamer2 · Post by **gamer2** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:33 pm

i know of a Computer Emulation site.

www.theoldcomputer.com

it lets you download a Comodore 64 and a Apple II

or an ATARI 800

yalborap · Post by **yalborap** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 2:38 pm

I already tried there, unfortunately.

EDIT: Okay, I found a site, but not having much luck. Can somebody tell me if computers around 1987 or so had text editing programs and could print?

Post by **gannon** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:18 pm

yeah, although it wasn't much

diggerdanh · Post by **diggerdanh** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:22 pm

ummm, yeah. (sarcastically)

Commodore 64 had text editing programs and it had a printer, too. Same with Apple IIc, Mac, etc.

PC's had their start at that time - IBM ATs and XTs (and the beginnings of the clones) - they ran DOS. They had text editors and printers.

HeHeHe - dot matrix printers. I forgot about those.

Post by **SpongeBuell** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:29 pm

I'm not sure about its release date, but I know the Coleco ADAM has a printer. You need to plug the power into it in order to power the whole computer

Link89 · Post by **Link89** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 3:48 pm

If this helps ABC was the first computer ever made. In 1940's or 50's.

vb_master · Post by **vb_master** » Tue Aug 24, 2004 4:02 pm

I'd suggest getting an STfm 1040.

HK-47 · Post by **HK-47** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 3:08 pm

http://www.old-computers.com/news/default.asp

RNS0504 · Post by **RNS0504** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 3:29 pm

obsoletecomputermuseum.com

Post by **benheck** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:25 pm

Look up Charles Babbage's Analytical Engine, which was the first modern-style computer but designed in the 1830's and meant to run mechanically off steam! Really! It even had a printout and a XY pen plotter! He never got the money to finish it.

And there's even an emulator for it!

Post by **gannon** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:27 pm

wow, an emulator for the analytical engine?
And yeah, if you accept ANY computers, the oldest one that comes to mind is the something mechanism from ancient greece.

Post by **Sparkfist** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:49 pm

gannon wrote:And yeah, if you accept ANY computers, the oldest one that comes to mind is the something mechanism from ancient greece.

It was Plato or Arastatal that made a computer that calcualted the revolutions of the planets around the sun.

Post by **gannon** » Wed Aug 25, 2004 10:52 pm

ah yeah, that's it, I just can't remember who actually made it. If only the Alexandrian Libraries never were destroyed we'd know a lot more about these things.