Welcome to Retro-kit

Welcome to my little corner of the retro web where I've catalogued my retro computers, their individual histories (where known) and their maintenance records along with how-to's for some of the procedures that I carry out when maintaining them.

As the majority of my retro computing kit is based on my collection of Acorn Computers, the site understandably concentrates on them but there's also be a little bit of Commodore heaven detailing the sole Amiga A1200 and its peripherals that I own.

So lets start with a list of the actual computers in my collection.

Acorn Computers

The Acorn computers I have cover the computers I either personally owned or used whilst at School between 1982 and 1994. The only exceptions to this are the Acorn Electron which I only used when visiting school friends that owned them and the A5000 which my head teacher used as his day to day computer whilst we used A3000's.

• Acorn BBC Micro Model A (Issue 2)
• Acorn BBC Micro Model B (early model Issue 4)
• Acorn BBC Micro Model B (late model Issue 4)
• Acorn BBC Micro Model B (my original Issue 7)
• Acorn BBC Micro Model B (Issue 7)
• Acorn Electron with Plus 1 expansion
• Acorn BBC Master 128
• Acorn BBC A3000
• Acorn Archimedes A410/1
• Acorn A5000

Beeb@30

I was lucky enough to be able to attend the Beeb@30 event at ARM Holdings plc in Cambridge in March 2012. Several of my Acorn computers were on display for visitors to use and explore, showcasing the abilities of these amazing machines.

Commodore Computers

• Commodore Amiga A1200

Peripherals, Software, Books and ephemera