Designer Rocky Bergen’s site has a growing number of papercraft models featuring retro computers (with PDF plans for download), including IMSAI 8080, C64, Apple II, CPC 464, Amiga 500, Atari ST, the venerable IBM 5100 portable, the Nintendo AVS prototype and even a Gamecube. – Maybe a nice way to fill those gaps in your collection?
Image: The IMSAI 8080 papercraft model, the latest addition to the collection (and probably a more complete system than you may be able to pick up in reality)…
I have downloaded the IMSAI 8080 model and will build&display it in my office.
They’re small-scale models, apparently (or I could zoom it in the copy machine I guess…), but that’s fine for the office.
Oh never twigged on the papercraft thing - the trouble with a compartmentalised outlook. Been a fan of papermau for eons where they sometimes feature kit builds.
There were Siemens 4004 miniature models I think originally from Siemens for planning the space for a mainframe center. I first thought that this is cardboard, but now I’m not sure. 3 Pics there
Kiss Kiss Bang Bang is I think a 70s KGB setting. There were different sets. There are analog displays as control station. But the tape drives look like regular mainframe ones.
