This is the homepage of Anders Karlsson, by some and many called Pugo. Those pages are mainly focused around my collection of old computers and videogames, but do also contain photos - mainly from travels and partys - as well as some personal information. Many of my photos come from musical events and festivals, mostly focused around industrial music.
All the year - and especially now - I long for the Wave-Gotik-Treffen festival in Leipzig. This year I will go there with my lovely girlfriend. I hope to see all the wonderful people I use to meet there also this year.
I currently work at Opera Software, for the embedded devices department, located in Linköping, Sweden.
Once again, welcome to my world of collecting!
Anders Karlsson
One of my strange interests is my collection of old vintage computers and video games. I hope you visit my collection pages to see some of the machines I play and live with!
One important reason why I collect vintage machines is pure nostalgia. Many years ago, when I was a young boy, I got in contact with a Luxor ABC 80 computer at a local radio amateur club. I was astonished by the machine and it made me start reading everything I could find about computers. Of course I wanted one of my own, but home computers were really expensice in those days. I went on reading and hacking on the computer at that radio amateur club. My parents understood that I was seriously interested and strangely, at christmas time 1982, they started to ask questions about various computers on the market. At christmas eve that year, the moment I'd been waiting for so long finally happened. When I opened that big packet I found my first own home computer, an Oric-1 48K. It was beautiful! I remember that for about a week I used to sit up in bed, before falling asleep, just to assure me that it was really there!
Back in those days the computer market was totally different. There were a lot more different brands on the market from many different manufacturers. The computers were often not compatible with each other at all. I remember when I visited the local computer shop, walking around among the tables with different computer systems. I really wanted them all!
Nowadays, when I manage to get hold of one of the machines that I used to read about in the computer magazines or see in the computer shops, it still happens that the same feeling, as the one that christmas eve, appears! That is one really good reason to collect!