Old computers are cool, but hundreds and hundreds of cassette tapes, floppy discs, cartridges and cd-roms is most definitely not. They also take up a huge amount of room.

Most of my retro systems have at least one type of more modern mass-storage device, some more useable than others.

Acorn RiscPC 700

The RiscPC has standard IDE headers and can use industry standard IDE hard drives, Compact Flash adaptors and optical drives.

Currently fitted: Internal IDE to Compact Flash adapter + 8GB CF card.

Acorn A7000

As per RiscPC, the A7000 has standard IDE.

Currently fitted: Internal IDE to Compact Flash adapter + 8GB CF card.

Amiga 500

No mass-storage provision as standard.

Amiga 1200

On board 44pin 2.5“ IDE header was fitted as standard.

Currently fitted: 3.5” drive bay with Compact Flash reader to IDE. SCSI CD reader attached to Blizzard SCSI IV.

Amstrad CPC

No mass storage as standard

Apple Macintosh IICi

Came with SCSI 1 onboard controller.

Currently fitted: Aztec CF Monster, SCSI to IDE/CF bridge card and Compact Flash card.

Supplier: http://www.artmix.com/CF_AztecMonster.html

Price: No longer available

• Atari Jaguar

No mass storage as standard

• Atari ST

Added an UltraSatan twin SD card reader, attached to the Atari SCSI port on the rear of the machine.

• MSX

Added a MegaFlashROM SCC+ SD cartridge with micro SD slot, 512k memory expansion and Konami sound hardware emulation.

• NEC PC-9801 / PC-9821

Takes standard EIDE devices. Has native capacity restrictions (4.3GB, 8GB, etc) to various low-sized IDE drives. Burned a replacement IDE ROM BIOS into an addon card and am currently using an 80GB 2.5“ ATA drive.

• NEC PC-Engine / Duo

Have the original Turbo Everdrive 1.x, which adds a micro SD card which allows loading of cart based games.

Also have the replacement Turbo Everdrive 2, which has a micro SD card to load cart based games, but also adds 4MB of memory for use with CD, Super CD and Arcade Card CD game titles.

Latest acquisition is a Super SD System 3, which has a micro SD card to load cart and CD based games, as well as the memory expansion for all CD titles.

• Nintendo DS
• Nintendo Gameboy Advance
• Nintendo Gamecube
• Nintendo SNES
• Sega Dreamcast
• Sega Game Gear
• Sega MasterSystem
• Sega Megadrive
• Sega Saturn
• Sinclair ZX Spectrum
• Sony Playstation
• Sony PS2
• Vectrex