On Saturday, three of us (@Revaldinho, @dominicbeesley and me) made a visit (by arrangement) to Jim Austin’s collection, which was very worthwhile.
Jim did a bit of a preamble talk, then Pete Turnbull took us around and through the maze, with lots of notes on the history and usage of the various machines. We had another session or two with Jim later on - he’d found and was able to show us some extra-unique items related to the Ferranti F100.
Overall we were there for well over three hours and had a great experience.
Here’s a very lightly curated set of snaps from me, presently without any captions:
More photos than expected have DEC VT100 terminals visible, sometimes in reflections - for example, reflected in this three-cabinet 256-transputer MEGA-NODE machine:
Jim has everything from Abacus to Cray (many Crays in fact, probably from YMP onwards), drums and core stores, Acorns, Sinclair, Commodore, Tandy, Apple, up to SGI, several transputer-based machines. Several parts of a Pegasus:
Also calculators, from Sinclair and from HP, also mechanical ones, and a Friden 135.
Also some other kinds of things: a mixing desk for local radio, cameras, some telescopes if I remember rightly.
Previously Jim’s sheds appeared in this topic, with many annotated photos:
Many photo albums from UK computer museums
(Every image there is a link to an album)
