Ernie's List of Old Computer Web Sites

Here's a short list of some of the more interesting web sites about retrocomputing and older computers.

• Apple II History (a 401 KB text file, © 1991 by Zonker Software)
• Curta Calculators (very cool mechanical calculators)
• The Curta Calculator Page
• Dave's Old Computers
• DTACK Grounded Archive
• Eric Smith's Retrocomputing page
• Ira Goldklang's TRS-80 Revived Model I Page
• Mike's Virtual Computer Museum — TRS-80 Model I
• Obsolete Computer Museum
• Obsolete Technology Web Site
• Old-Computers.com
• Terak Museum
• Tim Mann's TRS-80 Pages
• Virtual Museum of Computing
• Wikipedia — Retrocomputing
• Wikipedia — TRS-80

Here are two lists of lists.

• Google Directory: Computers > Hardware > Historical > Retrocomputing
• Yahoo! - Computers and Internet:History

My Old Computers

My first microcomputer was a gift from my father in 1979, a TRS-80 Model I with 16 KB RAM and a 500 bps cassette tape drive. In 1980, after I added an Expansion Interface, an additional 32 KB of RAM, dual floppy drives, and an RS-232C serial port, I wrote my first commercially successful software on it. Over the next few years I developed additional commercial software and ported most of it to and from Apple DOS, CP/M, and MS-DOS.

Older computers that I still own include:

• TRS-80 Model I
• Apple II+ (upgraded to an Apple IIe)
• IBM PC
• Northgate '386
• Gateway 2000 '486 (dual-boot MS-DOS & OS/2)
• PC clone with an AMD K6 CPU (Windows NT 4.0)
• Mac IIfx
• Motorola StarMax 4000/200 mini-tower