I've been modelling and 3D printing 1/10 scale retro computers. This is one I did yesterday that Redditors of a certain age will remember.

by sidneylopsides

18 comments

  1. Out of curiosity, what kind of dimensions are we talking for your micro BBC Micro (no banana for scale and I don’t know how big/small your hand is)?

  3. That’s excellent fidelity, what printer & material are you using?

  4. Instant flashback to the smell of a comprehensive school in 1984.

  5. this is stupidly awesome! a bit before my time but cool nonetheless

  6. Is the third computer the one from Severance? The one MDR uses

  7. My parents bought one of these for us to learn programming, I was a very lucky child. Sadly also a very lazy child…I could be rich now.

    10 PRINT “I am a spoilt lazy bastard that doesn’t like programming”

    20 GOTO 10

    That rocks OP

  8. i wish i had a 3d printer so i could make guns ;-;

    and a malorian arms 3516, cause it’s cool

  11. Lovely stuff! You should build one with a working micro computer and BBC emulator inside it which I guess would be more powerful than any supercomputer in 1982.

  13. Shrinkflation is getting out of hand 😡

    I remember when these were the size of the desk and cost £399.99 from WHSmiths

  14. Very cool. I have one of those up in the loft. It still worked last time I booted it up around 10 years ago as did my old ZX-81.

  15. First Wagon Wheels, now even the BBC Micros aren’t as big as they used to be. Living in the future sucks!

    Also, this brings back memories of fights to see who got the one colour monitor in the computer room at school, haha.

    Everyone else was either on Team Green or Team Amber.

  18. Mid 80’s primary school playing Mickeys marvellous medicine, on the BBC computer, floppy disc.

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