This is not exactly vintage radio, more like vintage computer.
Anyway if pressed i'm sure I could put a valve in it somewhere!

Back in 1979 EA described a computer designed by a Michael Bauer and it ran over a bunch of issues.
The local kit makers sold heaps of them and I wound up running a repair service for the kits.
Note i'm clueless about computers, I can barely add 2 and 2 but I was very clever at trouble shooting something that should work and then make it work.

Michael J Bauer has a web site and a link to an archive folder about the DREAM if you are interested.
There are STILL people making DREAMS and a 40th anniversary design can be found.
Just google his name and DREAM for links.

Fred.

Keeping the DREAM alive

Interesting: My introduction to actually working a computer was in the eighties & it didn't have a hard drive. I still have three slide rules & the instruction book for two of them, plus a still working programable "Sharp" form the 80's.

My first experience with the electronic computer landed on my bench in the form of the power supply: With the comment "You repair radio's; Don't you?". Err .. yes Ray but, this is out of a computer.

It was switch mode (new experience) & there were bits of track missing. What was evident was that it should not have been let into the country. Diodes were only 200V type so it was doomed & all he may have done was plugged it in? Probably would have been marginal, even in the US.

Document uploaded.

My hobby is working on emulating these old computers in the well-known emulator MAME.

I wrote the emulation of the Dream6800.

If the sight of computer code makes you swoon, take a look at this:

https://github.com/mamedev/mame/blob/master/src/mame/drivers/d6800.cpp

Hi Rob, eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!
I'll pass that onto my son!

Fred.