The old computer.com is a privately owned site that is dedicated to all aspects of retro computing, gaming, collecting .. in all areas.

Old computers both business and home, consoles from Atari to Vectrex, handhelds like Grandstand and Mattell, 'game and watch' by Nintendo and all other old hardware and associated peripherals.

As well as hardware I enjoy the old games from consoles and computer like the commodore 64 and spectrum as well as Atari and Colecovision.

Magazines from the era (1979 - 1992) are also collected with a view to scaning them for the public to download.

This site has been designed, developed and is maintained and paid for completely by myself, so please take a little time to browse through it's pages ... and if you like it then tell someone else .... or link to this site using one of the provided link buttons on the left.

As a serious collector of computers I follow the Computer Collector's Code of Conduct. If you wish to follow the CCCC please feel free to link back to this site and encourage this code of conduct.

This is the result of one mans obsession for old computers, namely myself Hot Trout. Other old aliases include PAZ and HT)

I have worked, played, eat and dealt with computers since I was nine years old back in 1981. My first computer was a spectrum ZX81 on which I learnt to program in basic. By 10 years old I had moved on to a Commodore 64 with datapac ... a computer which I still very much love and one which I used for almost 6 years.

In 1987 I imported one of the first Amiga500 computers into the UK from Canada it cost me over £600.00 at the time. It was the Amiga that got me into computers in a serious way. I was a member of a few cracking groups (RSI, The Untouchables) and formed a few of my own (Icrus) .... the Amiga scene was at its best in those days and had a cult following.

From the Amiga I moved onto a Commodore 8088 PC and taught myself DBASE4 and Clipper ... by 1989 I was heavily involved with PC's both programming and building. At university I earned extra income by building and selling 80286 PC's and by the time I left University I was building computers almost every night after class.

Today I am a director in a computer company that I founded back in 1993 .... but my real love is for collecting and restoring old computers and software.

My personal collection contains, 8bit consoles, computers, software, handhelds, books, magazines, old industry used hardware like PDP's and IBM's and everything else in between .. in fact anything that bears any Resemblance to a computer.

Hardware stands somewhere close to 200+ computers from all walks business and home.

Consoles include Atari, Coleco, Mattel, Sega, Sony and many more.

Software (8bit computer, console) stands at well over 3000 titles.

Software (16bit computer, Amiga) stands at over 3500 titles.

Computer Hardware & Peripheral Manuals over 100

Magazines (no idea .... but a lot)

This website has been featured in Esquire magazine. My own profile and complete collection has been featured on a BBC program called 'How Weird Are You'. Pictures of the film shoot are here. I have been asked to comment many times by the press and TV, on the rise of retro computing and gaming and also to comment on the craze of collection old techcnology.

I also recently supplied old computers to TV for set design. I have contributed to many recent magazine articles on retro gaming and indeed the state of gaming today.

I still game a lot, mostly on PC these days, I enjoy plaing online in EVE as well as the PSP, Nintendo DS Lite and even still regulary use the Sega Dreamcast for a few fav titles.

You can contact me here if you wish to ask anything more regarding this site.