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Home Computing History


Welcome to Binary Dinosaurs, the online display of a real collection of nearly 500 computers that begins at the Magnavox Odyssey from 1972, travels through the 'pong wars' of the 1970s, visits the explosion of diversity and excellence that created the home computer market of the early 80's and ends, well, as time has gone on it's been proved it doesn't end - my former main Mac G5 is here now and pretty soon the machine this site is running from could be declared vintage too...

(I must at this point apologise for most of the pictures here, they were mostly taken in 2000-2003 when bandwidth was precious and digital cameras weren't the best)
Head up to the Control Panel to find your way around the site and enjoy your visit!

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Lisa Icon21 Sept 2025
Finally got my Vtech Laser 200 working after 20-odd years of it being dead. Trouble is, I don't know HOW I fixed it. 
 
Lisa Icon02 Jul 2025
One very long term itch scratched! Binary Dinosaurs is finally home to the venerable Commodore C128D, and what a beauty it is. Go have a look! 
 
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I don't normally collect PCs but this one's kind of special, it's a Compaq Prolinea 4/25s and it was covered in DUST. So much dust. 
 
Lisa Icon30 Jun 2025
All things retro on display at the first RetroFest to be held in Swindon, at the STEAM! exhibition space in the old Swindon Railway Works. A great weekend's fun. 
 
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It's taken a long while, but spurred on by another CPT machine owner from Argentina getting his machine running last year I decided that over Xmas/New Year last year was the ideal time to get mine on the bench and sort it out. 
 
It took until April/May but I got there AND had it out on display at RetroFest 2025 in Swindon. 
 
Cheers for the inspiration Jonatan! 
 
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