Anyone collect vintage computers?

[sharkonwheels]

When I say vintage, I'm not talking your big brother's old Pentium 4...

I'm referring to pre-'85, and for me, it's pretty much pre-MessyDOS, meaning CP/M, MP/M, mostly Z80/8080/8008-based stuff, with 5.25" or 8" FDDs.

 

[MaliBuckeye]

If by "collect" you mean "have an old atari 400 buried somewhere in his folk's garage in Illinois", then... Yup.

 

[Apache]

I still have my little Mac Classic in my closet. It was an amazing thing at the time. I have all of my football playbooks, offense, defense, special teams and lesson plans and notes etc. It had a tiny screen and very little memory in comparison to today. I used little floppy disks to store things.

Plus it was "idiot compatible", so even I could use it then.

 

[jlb1705]

My mom still has a Commodore PET 64 tucked away somewhere.

She got it "free" with the purchase of this used car: