Tony is a Geek

A previously mentioned, I have purchased pre-assembled Z80-MBC3 and RC2014 electronics boards and components, waiting for "that" rainy day to come along.... Well, yesterday was that day, and boy did it rain!  Today, however, lovely sunshine and blue skies.  It's early and I'm killing time until I can go and pick up my Jaguar STR, after she's had some bodywork repairs done by an expert/professional.  Don't know what one of those is? click here. very rare actually, they only made 129 in the '07 year and there is probably about 30 left on the road.  As the paperwork says, "it was the fastest production road car when it was released.  faster than any supercars out there...", food for thought, huh? anyway, side-tracked. So, I have a couple of Z80 CPU based computers I'm going to build - except, they are new, but they are old, retro-vintage, if you like.  What's a Z80, you ask? (then you must be <40yrs old), here you go: Basically, without ...

Okay, this will be a QUICK post... honest... I was watching a YouTube video about a new Retro-Museum being opened in DERBY.... ...and I was thinking, well, there we go - when we pop along in the motorhome to the Peak District we can "pop-in" on a Saturday 10-4pm for a visit. Then my missus said, "you could probably open one of your own".  This got me thinking. I then decided to take a little look up in the loft(s)..and whilst I had sold off an entire room of Amstrad related retro-hardware about 10years ago (I dread to think what that lot would be worth now - but hey-ho) I found quite a few boxes of interesting machines that I had bought back in the 2007/2008 timeframe. As I said, I'll do a more indepth post on each setup etc... in the future, for now here is a taster; there are quite a few Spectrum machines (something I never had as a kid), a few Toshiba MSXs and a few Atari 800 XLs.... with lots of peripherals. Yes, that is 2 x 5.1/4" floppy disc drives - ...