Some people collect record albums, or Pokemon cards, or football uniforms. I collect old computers. :-)

Very interesting.  The Dragon 64 in Britain had a grey coloured case, to differentiate it from the 32.  Interestingly, Tano seem to have used a sticker that actually fit the space on top of the case.  In British 32 machines, the 'Dragon' sticker was a bit too wide and gradually shrank over the years, giving it a permanent crease in the middle.  A company called Microdeal here bought over a lot of American CoCo software and had it converted to run on the Dragon.  They had a character called Cuthbert who became their mascot, and appeared in several games.  The games were usually clones (Cuthbert in the Jungle = Pitfall), and the character himself looked amazingly like Alfred E Neuman from Mad magazine.  (In adverts and so-on, that is).

Wow...Blast from the past there!
Can't remember exactly what year, 82 maybe 83...But I got a Commodore 64 for Christmas, and my best friend got a Dragon 32...'From Wales'...Boyo!!!
Needless to say he spent more time at my house playing my favourite game on the C64...'Thing On A Spring' which has the best computer music ever!...And now I am feeling a desperate need to go and play it on that very same machine! :)
That Dragon is very nice find though...being new old stock and cheap!!!

I like when Kevin shows his face in his video!  (now just need it in HD!)

Looks like an Apple II!

Wow ... unopened since 1984 ... This like finding the alliance arch :) First time I see a Dragon 32 functioning for me ... thank you for this video !

Too bad I didn't see this a year ago. That's a really sweet retro computer find. Seeing the differences is interesting. The Coco had an internal power supply, and using a joystick connector for the power is idiosyncratic.It's interesting that they used different keyboard scan codes.

All sold now! That’s a shame. Would love one! Great vid. :)

I love your videos mate, I was born in 82 and didn't really game until 86 however I do love finding out about these old PC's especially as I love modern PC gaming. So a new subscriber from me.  I didn't even know the Dragon computers were sold in USA, I knew about them from the UK though.

Crazy to think my lecturer programmed this!

I have an original Dragon 32 and the button which is used for your channel selector is the power button on mine. There is no switch on the power brick. Si it looks like they re-purposed the power button as the channel selector for the US models.

that german translation on that box is hilarious

This is one of the most interesting channels from youtube , great job vwestlife

Hello from Liverpool! Absolutely brilliant!! I had the Dragon 32 back in the 80s and loved playing games like Chuckie Egg and Donkey Kong etc - those were the days!!

Not sure if this was intentional or coincidental (I'm gonna suspect the former), but there was a highly comical nature to the complete calm with which you faced each glaring limitation or WTF moment with this ancient beast... Almost like serenely watching a deadly accident unfold. God I miss my Dragon 32... It's in the next room (LOL), just hasn't been fired up in nearly 30 years. Thanks for a beautifully nostalgic and highly entertaining tour of this gem.

finally an American that does his research and doesn't refer to Wales as England fucking hate that!

That's an interesting machine! It looks almost exactly like an Apple II...which I used to have in near-pristine condition before someone decided to trash it without me even knowing. I wish I still had that machine. I enjoyed using it.

That is awesome! not a bad price for a NOS computer either, considering what some used, vintage computers go for. Collectors are gonna go insane for this!
I really like this style of computer, it's like your "halftop"! There should be modern computers like that!
You can make your own games on it too? That's awesome! You should make one!
Nice intro and outro by the way... you should wear that suit more often in your videos ;-)

I think Dragon was on the shortlist to provide a computer for the BBC. Acorn eventually won out.

I bet the 149 worth of softwares are all written in Basic.