Jupiter Ace vintage home computer. Rare retro collectors item.

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Jupiter Cantab's Jupiter Ace vintage Jupiter Ace home computer. A rare retro collectors item, utilising the FORTH programming language.

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[MattTheSaiyan]

I was reading an old computer magazine/book thing, and they listed the price as "£90" with a 16k ram add-on. The listed the poor case and poor keyboard as the main disadvantages. Oddly enough they listed the use of "Forth" as an disadvantage, odd, because that is the main claim-to-fame of the computer.

[SteveBenway]

@MattTheSaiyan Just goes to show how things change :)

[ometec]

I tried like the dickens to buy one in the States back when they came out. Couldn't get one.

[SteveBenway]

@ometec Yup... rare as hens teeth :)

[cmdfarsight]

I've just been on ebay and seen someone selling a boxed jupiter ace and jupiter 4000 along with software and extras but for a really high price :(

[SteveBenway]

@cmdfarsight Yes, they really aren't cheap.

[Swallabat]

Google "fignition" for a low cost ACE alternative.

Any collectors who want one, and can offer me a high value swap item ( that I can sell to pay for my stupidly high car insurance) please feel free to PM me. (Particularly if you are in the insurance game and can swap me a policy!) I have a low mileage ACE with 16Krampack, some games, books etc.

I also have some unpopulated PCB's and Z80's somewhere, too... I no longer do ebay sales, of course, now they are just too much aggravation.

[ComradeZX]

i saw one on the a collectors retro computer site go for £1000

wow

[GreatNorthWeb]

@SteveBenway indeed...perhaps that's just the way markets emerged in a time when we didn't have that much connectivity. we are now examining the anthropology of electronics and users like you are documenting the evolution of computing.

[SteveBenway]

@GreatNorthWeb Part of that is that the UK and European markets had completely different systems that never made it to the US. Eastern Europe is the same... they have masses of stuff that I've never heard of, and when they come up on ebay or wherever, I'm just like "what the hell is that?"