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Good Vintage Computers?

Posted by Cliff on from the hardware-with-a-place-in-computing-history dept.

The Crooked Elf asks: "I'm going to be running an event dedicated to vintage computers and game consoles in a month for the computer science department at the University of Southern Maine. My current arsenal includes a TRS-80 Color Computer 3 and an old NES (with Zelda, Mario, etc), but I feel I need a few more items to display. I have a budget of around $600 for this event. Slashdot, what do you feel are other decent vintage systems that would be the most valuable and educational to present?"

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  1. Pointers by faedle · · Score: 4, Informative

    You might try asking on the Classic Computers mailing list: classiccmp.org. You might get people to loan you systems of interest.

    For my money, you'd probably be in good if you got a Commodore 64 (for obvious reasons) and a machine like a IMSAI 8080. Perhaps an Apple 2.

    In the grand scheme of things, the Tandy Color Computer 3 was largely irrelevant by the time it came to market...

  2. Apple I by tie_guy_matt · · Score: 5, Informative

    You will never be able to afford a real Apple I. However if you want to let people play with a vintage computer (and a very important one at that) without risking a real classic you can by the Replica I for about $200. It is a replica of the Apple I (since Woz still owns the rights to the apple I and not Apple he has the rights to let others make replica's and clones) but it uses more modern parts. Here is the website: http://www.brielcomputers.com/