My orig. C64 with it's IEEE based SFD-1001, 1541 Flash, RS232 and Hayes Smartmodem 1200 is all gone, sadly. I ran a BBS on it in 1984 when I lived in Berkeley California. All that remains aside from of printouts of some assembly language and a very long basic program (see pic, that is 1 of 12 pages that I will type in some day) is a 1701 monitor.
But starting 10 years ago, I've accumulated:
Pet 4032 with Visicalc ROM, a MSD drive and CBM 4022 Printer and more recently the SD2PET
2 x SX-64s (but call it one and a half because one has a video problem and a blown out SID)
1 x C128 with a jack'd up keyboard (recently bought a C=Key kit that someday will fix this)
1 x Plus 4 which I JUST bought from eBay last night; hopefully it will work; very much looking fwd to that
1 x MiniPet project
1 x Ben Eater 6502 setup
The Pet is the prize of my collection as it's the first computer I used as a young child; more importantly because I'm using it to give my 11 year old in-home STEM classes. We are working on a simple game that she is writing in Basic. I am hopeful that she will learn as I did and build upon it some day maybe not as an IT professional but in learning to break through barriers, to think logically, and be resourceful when it comes to solving programs.
And yes, for me, it all started with the desire to play games beginning with Invaders on the Pet.
