Acorn The ARM Evaluation System
When the British company Acorn was working on the new 32 bit RISC processor ARM, it developed an external processor board called The ARM Evaluation System for …
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AlfaPen Optical Pen Mouse from Alfa Data
For people who draw, using a pen is more natural than using a mouse. Alfa Data developed the AlfaPen Optical Pen Mouse for this purpose. Like other optical …
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Open pageAtari 1064 (Atari Memory Module 1064)
The Atari 600XL is considered an indirect successor to the Atari 400, as it is largely compatible with it. Unfortunately Atari left the memory at 16 KiB, which …
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Atari XEP80 Interface Modules
Early Atari home computers have a standard resolution of 40 x 24 characters. The Atari XEP80 Interface Module is a small box that connects between the monitor …
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Commodore 1351 Mouse
The Commodore 1351 is a mouse for C64 and C128. It transmits movements proportionally and can be operated as a joystick if necessary.
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Commodore Magic Voice Speech Module for C64
Voice output on computers has a long tradition. Before the computers were powerful for a software solution and offered good audio playback, it was hardware …
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Commodore SFD 1001
The SFD 1001 is a Commodore floppy drive with IEEE-488 interface. A floppy disk holds about 1 MB, a multiple of the 1541.
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Open pagedk suchtronics Silicon Disc
The floppy disk drives of Amstrad/Schneider CPC computers could write 180 KiB per side. Although they were much faster than cassette storage, there was still …
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External floppy disk drive FD-1, DDI-1 (Disk Drive Interface)
The FD-1 is an external floppy disk drive for the CPC664 and the CPC6128. To connect the FD-1 to an older CPC464, an adapter, the DDI-1 (for Disk Drive …
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Open pageHudson Soft Bee Pack, Bee Card Adapter for MSX
Modules for home computers and game consoles are nothing unusual, and Hudson Soft also defined a standard for memory cards, the Bee Card. From 1984/85 they …
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Kempston Pro Joystick Interface
The Kempston Micro Electronics Pro Joystick Interface expands the ZX Spectrum with joystick connections.
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Open pageMilton Bradley MBX Expansion System
The expansion system is an extension for the Texas Instruments TI-99/4A. The module for speech input is particularly interesting. The device flopped and …
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NewTek Digi-View Gold
Digi-View Gold by NewTek is a video digitizer for the Amiga. Color images are created in three passes with a color filter wheel.
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Scanntronik Handyscanner 64
The Handyscanner 64, the "Scanner for All", is a product from the German manufacturer Scanntronik. In addition to the scanner, which can be held like a mouse …
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