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1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Analog_computer 2. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Differential_analyser
I have a collection of SGI gear I grabbed before the retro community jacked the price up. Also I have a couple hp pa risc machines. Apollo's etc. I still love the UX in Irix and think that windows 2k was peak windows.
The first PC we had in our home was an Olivetti M24, an 8086 running at 8Mhz. This was around 1987 (I think). Then I got my own 286 (also Olivetti) so naturally I have an affinity with early PC's. In the past two years I rebuild, from parts I sourced in various places, a fully working; 286/16, 386SX/20, 386DX/40, 486DX/100. I also have the parts for a Pentium 100 except for the CPU. It was fun collecting and sourcing…
Same here about Olivetti. In case you didn't know, last year I learnt about PCem, an emulator to bring back to life those XT 8086 8088, 286, 386, 486... Take a look at my page about it ;) https://juangacovas.info/doku.php/windows/howtos/pcemu-page
Do replicas count? I recently got a fully functional PDP-11 replica, running RSTS. This is currently my favorite vintage computer, because the PDP-11 happens to be the very first computer I ever programmed on.
Laptops can be annoying due to the nonstandard parts and limited expansion capabilities (save for PCMCIA cards), but they are very compact and self-contained and I'm currently living in a small house.
I do some programming on them for fun and try, when I have the time, to make them really workable. With Symbos and some cheat hardware, this works pretty well.
Aegis may not be the best general purpose system, but let's hear it for niche.
Recently I've been fascinated by the PLATO system, although I have never used it in hardware or emulated form.
Unfortunately you can't personally emulate it because the system images are not publicly available. There seems to be a public access emulation however.