I am an electronic engineer, Wikipedian since July 2002, and ever since the 1970s I have been busy with microprocessors, designing microprocessor based electronic equipment. In fact, in 1980 or so, I designed one of the first Dutch Microcomputers, called the ASTER CT-80. It was a TRS-80 clone, that could also run CP/M.
Since then I have been interested in the history of computers. I own an extensive library with German, Dutch, British and American computer magazines. For example an (almost) complete collection of BYTE magazine.
I also collect old homecomputers of which I have between 80 and 90 (I lost count), with my oldest computer being a Datapoint 2200, which is considered the oldest system that can be considered a Personal Computer, and whose CPU architecture has Inspired the architecture of Intel's first 8-bit CPU, the Intel 8008. A CPU architecture whose Successors are still used in the CPU's of all PC's (and now Mac's too).
CCE MC-1000 later the separate articles I wrote about the GEM 1000 and Rabbit RX83 were merged with this one, as they proved to be too obscure to have their own article :-)
Panasonic JR-200, a rare home computer, one of a very few systems to use a 6802 processor.
1chipMSX about the return of MSX home computers. Programming FPGA's in VHDL anyone?
Mega Duck/Cougar Boy Just two rare Handheld game consoles I have recently acquired. I now also took a picture of them, and placed it in the article. I also wrote an article about "Watara Supervision internals" and a similar article "Mega Duck internals" so you can see the similarity of both designs. These pages have since been removed from wikipedia main because they were deemed to be "not encyclopedic", but the pictures I took for these articles can still be found here User talk:Mahjongg/Mega Duck Internals.
Parallax Propeller, The most interesting Micro-controller I have seen in a long time (upgraded from the stub).
List of home computers by video hardware What had gotten into me to take on this Herculean task I don't know, but this has been a major job (I loved to do), it's almost finished now (as long a no new systems/info show up).
Video Display Controller is a subject that's near to my heart, it indirectly lead me to start on the "List of home computers by video hardware" article.....
Comx-35 Still don't have found one for my collection, (I own about 80, I lost count, home computers and game systems) but I remember these.
Electronics today international (magazine) is another very old magazine that very early published designs of Home brew computers. I remember the "system 68", it did not have a keyboard or any other input device, you could only use a lightpen to turn on pixels (memory bits) on and off, and to start your program. That is in the time that everybody else used a switch-panel and led's, like the Altair. A very odd system! Maybe Ill write an article about it someday.
