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Vintage Computers Any vintage computer systems, calculators, video games etc., but with an emphasis on 1980s and earlier equipment. |
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29th Jan 2009, 8:27 pm | #1 |
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microtan tangerine
I am restoring my old tangerine computer that I built in the early 1980's.
In those days you had to solder it together yourself! Did any other forum members have one? philb. |
5th Apr 2009, 9:27 am | #2 |
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Re: microtan tangerine
Yes I had 1 this was aslo from a kit that a friend of mine had built 8 j rom and 2 k of ram I seem to remember I scrapped it when a special chip in it died
At the time I told my sons that there would be 2 classes of people in the future those with pc knowledge and those without! lord help those without ! As my main interesr was and is Audio I used it to assist in amplifier design regards Trev |
5th Apr 2009, 8:07 pm | #3 |
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Re: microtan tangerine
Please forgive me for being off topic...
I was just recalling fruits hahaha. I never had a tangerine but at school we did try and work out how many fruit related computer things we could think of. Tangerine computer Apple computer Banana Discs Apricot Computer There were plenty more but my memory isnt as good now... Andi
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6th Apr 2009, 7:55 am | #4 |
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Re: microtan tangerine
A quick one before this gets stopped for being OT "blackberry"!
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