Why a whole page about my computer collection?  Simple... computers have been a big part of most of my life, and I've had a lot of interesting (and not so interesting) machines over the past 30 years.  After I read the one article in QST back 1976, I knew what I wanted to do the rest of my life.

Back then, a good friend (AA5B) was a grad student at Princeton U, so Bruce was able to get me into a lab with access to a PDP-11/45.  I still have one of my earliest programs hanging on my wall.

I've owned dozens (hundreds?) of computers over the years.  The first 1/2 dozen I remember well, but others were a blur...
  • KIM-1 (1978)
  • OSI Superboard (1979)
  • Atari 800 (1980)
  • Apple ][+ (1981)
  • Franklin ACE-100 - my first computer from my first real job (1982)
  • Ferguson Big Board (1983)
  • Franklin ACE-1000 (1983)
  • Franklin Red Lightning (one of a few prototypes) (1984)
  • Franklin BOGUS (one of 3 or 4 prototypes) (1984)
  • IBM System 3 (a BIG machine) (1984)
  • DECstation 3100
  • DECstation 5000/200
  • DECstation 5000/240
  • DEC PDP-11/03
  • DEC PDP-11/23
  • DEC PDP-11/24
  • More Atari 800s
  • 8088 PC clone
  • 80286 clone
  • 80486 (first machine I ever paid more than $4000 for)
  • Many Pentium machines (piles are still in the basement)
  • Sun Sparc 5 clone
  • Sun Ultra Sparc 5
  • Several Atari 400s and many Atari peripherals
  • Franklin ACE-2200
  • Franklin ACE-2100
  • Atari ST-520
  • Two more KIM-1s
  • Rockwell AIM-65
  • S-100 components, chassis, etc
  • Many single board computers
  • Heathkit Hero Jr robot. Rescued from a trash can
  • Apple iMac, 2.4 GHz (2008)

Anymore, i'm just a PC user like most people.  They are running either XP or FreeBSD.  The iMac is a new addition.

My S-100 system should be ready to go, but I need to wire it all up.  I've collected S-100 parts over the years and finally have enough to theoretically put together a running system.

I continue to look for vintage computers that interest me.  This is my list of things I'm especially looking for, but other 6502 machines are of interest too...
  • Almost any Franklin ACE-10 disk drive. These mechanical devices are hard to keep working
  • Saturn 128K memory expansion card for the Apple ][
  • Franklin expansion cards
  • Franklin X-10 hard drive
  • Any Apple ][ compatible hard drive
  • KIM-4 motherboard
  • KIM expansion boards, such as those made by MTU
  • Any Perkin-Elmer minicomputers, parts, software or manuals
  • SYM-1 single board computer
If you have any of those that you'd like to part with, please email me.