Visiting an uncle in 1985 with a Sinclair setup next to an electronic typewriter
Visiting an uncle in 1985 with a Sinclair setup next to an electronic typewriter
Below is the current inventory of Pekka Leppaluoto's vintage computer collection. The RFE AT/386 and the MultiSync 2A (the JC-1403HME one) is mostly original/preserved from the 1990s. All others have been collected from mid 2000s to now.
Last update: Sep-25-2025
Me and my friend taking turns in Wing Commander in 1991
"A 386SX@16MHz IBM AT compatible system built and sold by RF Electronics in the early 1990s. Upgraded with a 486 motherboard, 486 CPU, more memory, an additional hard disk, CD-ROM drive + adapter and the AWE32 by RF Electronics later. This was our main system after our Commodore PC 10-II. Also handled 24-7 BBS duties before we moved to a Pentium 200MHz system around 1997."
"Funny how back then we wanted to get rid of AdLibs, early Sound Blasters and get the latest 16-bit one instead. And now my favorite card is the dual OPL2 early Pro card or an authentic AdLib Music Synthesizer Card.."
+ denotes a more recently added/upgraded item while strikethrough denotes recently decommissioned item.
m denotes original manual and installation disks (if any) included.
"A later AT model (type 339?) with 8MHz CPU clock speed, Seagate hard drive and a Model M keyboard. "Oulun Systema" sticker on the front bezel indicates that it has been sold/operated by a local system dealer/provider. Was looking for a 5150 + CGA but got this instead. Great for experiencing what a real IBM machine is like in its full weight!"
Our Commodore PC 10-II running Simcity in 1990
"Our first IBM PC compatible was this model with a RLL hard disk drive in the second drive bay instead of the 2nd floppy drive. This one is unlikely to be the actual one but I have very fond memories of this model. The Commodore Advanced Graphics Adapter (an OEM'ed ATI GS card) is a versatile gem with its 16 color support in higher resolutions and CGA emulation mode on a monochrome monitor. Planning to populate the 2nd drive bay with another Chinon or a RLL/MFM HDD with a black front panel."
"I did briefly own an uncommon model, a PC 10-S for a while but sold that along with some accessories from our original PC 10-II some years back."
"Aiming to own all main releases of early 1990s Sound Blasters and the essential Roland gear. Did have a Mindscape Music Board in the collection for a while but sold that away. Also sold my original SC-7 complete-in-box sound module as the SC-55/SCC-1 capital tones provide the same sounds."
m denotes original manual and installation disks (if any) included.
"The NEC MultiSync 3D is certainly a feature packed CRT monitor. Digital, analog, 15kHz, 38kHz, CGA, MDA, EGA, PGC, VGA-350, VGA-400, VGA-800, 8514/A, Mac][, 800x600...The 3D model was an option when we moved to the 386 system mentioned above. We opted for the 1/3 of the cost model, the 2A model."
m denotes original manual and installation disks (if any) included.
Me with our Commodore C64G setup in 1989. Our Commodore PC 10-II was on the next desk to the left
"Not an IBM PC Compatible computer in any way but depicts a common situation with early PCs - gaming was done on other computers. Had our original C64G Video Supergame 64 complete-in-box preserved but sold that few years ago. Now later had the opportunity to receive a loose C64 breadbin with a diskette drive. We had the 1541-II disk drive back then and I had forgot/was surprised how complicated working with disks is in BASIC 2. Pretty nice video output from the video connector with separate luma and chroma signals. I'd wish someone had told me about this option for our Salora S15L30 TV instead of the RF connection."
m denotes original manual and installation disks (if any) included.
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