Retronauts Micro 84: The trials of vintage computing

Retronauts

Technology, Games, Video Games, Leisure

4.6 • 2.3K Ratings

🗓️ 6 April 2018

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

Benj Edwards has long dreamed of curating a museum of vintage PC history, and he's amassed hundreds of classic computers to make it happen. We talk about the unique challenges of preserving so many aging machines… especially finding room for them all.

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0:00.0	This week on RetroNots Micro, a micro computer collection gets micro sized.
0:04.4	Everyone, welcome to another fine and syndulating episode of RetroNots Micro.
0:31.9	I am Jeremy Perish.
0:33.9	And with me here is none other than the amazing the one and only, Benjid, which is into that excitement.
0:40.9	And Benjid is here because he recently posted a tweet on Twitter, which is where one does such things as tweeting,
0:49.9	talking about and showing off his extensive collection of personal computers, or if you're one of those people who's still living in 1983,
0:57.9	I think PC only means IBM compatible systems, his micro computers.
1:03.9	And it's quite an impressive array of systems, but unfortunately it's not going to be with Benj much longer.
1:10.9	It sounds like.
1:12.9	Yeah, it's possible.
1:15.9	Would you care to elaborate?
1:17.9	No, I just, you forced me to do this.
1:20.9	You seemed excited to be here and now you're all like whatever.
1:23.9	Yeah, that's just part of the comedy routine.
1:27.9	Oh, okay.
1:28.9	Yeah, so, yeah, I have been collecting computers since I was about 12 years old.
1:35.9	And that's around 1993.
1:39.9	And so 25 years now, I've been amassing a large collection of personal micro computers, as Jeremy said,
1:47.9	and also video game stuff too.
1:49.9	I have lots of consoles and stuff.
1:51.9	But I was recently thinking about potentially moving to a different house.
1:56.9	And I thought, hey, maybe it would be nice to move somewhere where I didn't have to have a gigantic two car garage building to house all this stuff in a climate controlled situation.
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