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I was building my own computer in 1981. It had a 1 MHz 6502 processor, 1024 bytes of RAM, Teletype terminal, and paper tape program storage.

I have a Jameco JE2019 tower case/power supply that I've had since 1988 or so. It's been through at least three different motherboards and currently has a Pentium II MB. Also a Northgate Omnikey 102 keyboard that I got at the same time and still works great. I have a couple of old Apple external 1X SCSI CD-ROM drives that I use regularly on a FreeBSD system.

Things that I still have, but don't use regularly include various computer items dating back to 1981.

Around 1981, I built a computer of my own design. It uses a 6502 processor, and wire-wrapped STD cards on a backplane with a card cage for peripheral boards. I still have it, and last time I checked, it still worked. (The manual EPROM programmer, rack case and some other minor items are long gone, but the computer and power supply are still usable).

Is this worth anything to any of you collectors? I would be willing to sell it if I could find it a good home.

Doom - work your way through pworld. E1M1 is good for multiplayer. E1M7 was a favorite also.

About three years ago I built a BFG8500 (smaller cousin to the BFG9000) as part of my halloween costume. I sold it on eBay a couple of years ago, but I still have some pictures of it. Here, here, here, here and here. It was pretty cool. It had a digital sound generator to recreate the whooshing sound of the BFG9000 and a photoflash with a green filter, rigged to a trigger button. And some blinky LEDs, too.

About three years ago I built a BFG8500 (smaller cousin to the BFG9000) as part of my halloween costume. I sold it on eBay a couple of years ago, but I still have some pictures of it. Here, here, here, here and here. It was pretty cool. It had a digital sound generator to recreate the whooshing sound of the BFG9000 and a photoflash with a green filter, rigged to a trigger button. And some blinky LEDs, too.

About three years ago I built a BFG8500 (smaller cousin to the BFG9000) as part of my halloween costume. I sold it on eBay a couple of years ago, but I still have some pictures of it. Here, here, here, here and here. It was pretty cool. It had a digital sound generator to recreate the whooshing sound of the BFG9000 and a photoflash with a green filter, rigged to a trigger button. And some blinky LEDs, too.

About three years ago I built a BFG8500 (smaller cousin to the BFG9000) as part of my halloween costume. I sold it on eBay a couple of years ago, but I still have some pictures of it. Here, here, here, here and here. It was pretty cool. It had a digital sound generator to recreate the whooshing sound of the BFG9000 and a photoflash with a green filter, rigged to a trigger button. And some blinky LEDs, too.

About three years ago I built a BFG8500 (smaller cousin to the BFG9000) as part of my halloween costume. I sold it on eBay a couple of years ago, but I still have some pictures of it. Here, here, here, here and here. It was pretty cool. It had a digital sound generator to recreate the whooshing sound of the BFG9000 and a photoflash with a green filter, rigged to a trigger button. And some blinky LEDs, too.

Check out The Gauntlet, a USB power glove by AGE. It appears not to be in production yet. Be sure to e-mail AGE and let them know if you're interested. (I developed a prototype of this glove for AGE a few years ago, as well as the original COP888 code for the Mattel Power Glove).