Museum Picture Gallery

Acorn Electron A home microcomputer from the UK.	Amiga 1200 Arguably the ultimate console computer, this wonder actually shipped in the nineties shortly before the tragic although much deserved demise of Commodore. Featuring a 32 bit processor, a hard drive, floppy drive and great high res graphics, had this machine come out four years earlier it would have rocked the world.
Amiga 500 The legendary non-console Amiga finally got a lower price and it's first console configuration in this ultra-slick redesign.	Amiga 600 Commodore released this little brother to the Amiga 1200 at about the same time. It had a less powerful processor and no numeric keypad.
Amstrad CPC 464 Made in England this cool design got around the problem of losing the cassette recorder by building it right in!	Apple II Not much to say about this classic. It brought slot based expansion home for the first time and showed that people would pay over two thousand dollars for a 48K computer.
Apple IIc Shades of the Mac... Wow an Apple II with a built in handle, built in floppy drive and no expansion slots.	Apple IIe The 'e' was for enhanced. Still working on getting more information on this one.
Atari 1040 ST This was the big brother of the Tramiel's 520ST with twice the memory.	Atari 1200XL Another venerable descendant of the classic Atari 800.
Atari 130 XE The infamous Tramiels take over Atari after getting the boot from Commodore and start the whole idea of giving computers a model number based on the number of 'bytes' of memory instead of the number of 'K' or memory (it goes to eleven you see...)	Atari 400 This lower cost version of the legendary Atari 800 came out first but had a terrible membrane keyboard with no tactile feedback. It did however have the same killer graphics chips as it's big brother.
Atari 520ST This was the Tramiel's first machine at Atari. Although released shortly before the Amiga, they designed it to be an "Amiga killer".	Atari 600XL After the debacle with the membrane keyboard on the 400, Atari couldn't very well name the little brother of the updated 800XL the 400XL could they?
Atari 65XE The first Tramiel 8 bit computer at Atari. It was the forerunner of the ST look.	Atari 800 One of the best home game machines of all time. Those Player/Missle graphics were hard to beat and they were designed by Jay Miner who would later design the graphics chips in the Amiga.
Atari 800XL A follow on to the Atari 800, this model introduced the concept of an 'ash tray' on a console (actually it was a cartridge slot with spring loaded silver metal doors. I swear everyone thought it was an ash tray!)	BBC Micro This early home computer from the UK is the only I know of offered for sale under the name of a television network. Very cool with lots of expansion ports. This unit was donated to the museum directly from the BBC.
Color Computer II (HR) The success of the original Color Computer led Radio Shack to create the Color Computer II. This is a later version that sported a better keyboard referred to as a "Hi Rise Keyboard" and a slightly updated BASIC ROM.	Color Computer II (LR) The first shipping version of the Color Computer II featured a lower cost and lower profile keyboard.
Color Computer 3 This was the last and the best of the venerable Color Computer line. It could run a multi-tasking operating system (OS/9) and had an optional output to an RGB monitor.	Color Computer Aah, the sweet sound of chiclet keys tapping away, with 4K of memory and the first 16 bit processor in a home computer! Radio Shack called it simply 'Color Computer' because at the time all their other models were black and white. Oooh, colors! Four of them!
Commodore 128 Commodore's later attempt to recapture the magic of the C-64 with twice the memory.	Commodore 16 This was Commodore's ill-fated attempt at an early cost reduced C-64. "Hey, let's just put one fourth the RAM in it!"
Commodore 64 What can you say about this baby? It was simply the most popular console computer of all time. It had a great price, cool graphics and really neat music capabilities.	Commodore Plus/4 An innovative concept by Commodore to take the C-64 and add four applications in ROM with an instant access button for each. Viola, the first 'Office Suite' of apps.
Commodore VIC 20 This was the forerunner of the C-64. It featured 5K of memory and a $499 price tag. Hot stuff at the time (circa 1981).	Dragon 32 An improved and 'almost' compatible competitor to the Color Computer from the U.K. It was much more popular than Tandy's Coco over there.
Dragon 64 (US Tano) Initially designed in England as an 'almost' compatible competitor to the Color Computer this rare beauty is a special version made in the U.S. for a few months in '83 by an oil equipment company wanting to cash in on the home computer computer boom. Only a few thousand of these were ever made and most were never sold.	Goldstar FC-200 Another MSX Machine. Made in Korea and sold primarily in Europe. It has a holder for a light pen built in to the top next to the cartridge port.
Laser 500 Don't know much about this one yet. Made in Hong Kong circa '85. Obtained in a trade from Germany.	Laser 128 This was a clone of the Apple IIc made in Hong Kong and quickly unmade in the US Federal Court system.
Magnavox Odyssey 2 Although primarily a game console this unit had a keyboard and with a BASIC cartridge could be programmed.	Mattel Aquarius Mattel expanded the Intellivision game console unto a full-fledged computer.
Micro Color Computer Radio Shack briefly offered this stripped down and chiclet keyboarded version of the Color Computer. It was based on the Motorola 6803 processor which wasn't compatible enough with the Coco but this little wonder, also known as the MC-10, did cost just $99.	NEC 6001 This early non-MSX Japanese home computer featured lots of I/O and an internal speaker.
Oric Atmos This slick looking unit comes from the UK and features a very sporty entirely red under-carriage.	Panasonic FS-A1 This beauty is one of the later MSX machines with the MSX 2 designation. It featured a faster processor and higher resolution graphics. Very cutting edge for it's day but unfortunately never sold in the U.S.
Pecom 64 This computer was manufactured in Yugoslavia in the early 1980s. It is based on the RCA 1802 processor. Click on the link for more detailed pictures. Although it says '64' I only count 32K of RAM inside.	Phillips VG-8020 A cool MSX machine from Europe with dual cartridge slots.
Radio Shack Model 1 This is the whiskered grand daddy of many of the other models here as it first shipped all the way back in 1978. Some debate whether it's actually a true console as it required a special black and white monitor for it's text only display, but you could get an adapter to hook it up to a TV.	Sinclair Spectrum The most popular home computer of the time in the U.K. Venerable descendent of the TS 1500 and 2068.
Sinclair ZX80 Made in England initially as a kit and later sold complete the ZX80 featured a membrane keyboard (plastic sheet with no feedback) and one whole K of memory. It was also the only computer I ever used that could either run a program or display on the screen but not both at the same time.	Sinclair ZX81 An updated version of the ZX80 with 2K of memory. It was the basis of the first model released in the US by the well known watch company Timex.
Tandy 1000 EX This early MS-DOS console machine had a few new graphics modes similar to the ones found in the PC Jr.	Thomson MO5 Platini This cool machine was a special edition release of the MO5 named after a French soccer star. It came in a cool sports bag and was emblazoned with Platini's signature.
Texas Instruments 99/4A This silver and gray wonder had 16 colors and one of the coolest add-ons of the era - an actual hardware speech synthesizer (pictured). Of course by comparison Stephen Hawking sounds like Pavarotti but back then it was the cat's meow.	Texas Instruments 99/4A This was TI's attempt to revive the flagging 99/4 line by swapping to an innovative beige color (hey, at the time beige actually was innovative!)
Timex Sinclair 1000 Modeled on the Sinclair ZX 81, this cost reduced unit that was actually sold in some supermarkets!	Timex Sinclair 1500 This rework of the Timex Sinclair 1000 featured a new look and a rubberized keyboard that was easier to type on but this machine was otherwise almost identical to the TS 1000.
Timex Sinclair 2068 The last and most advanced of the Timex Sinclair home computers.