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Computer Compulsive
Computer Compulsive

[ Buy · Sell · Trade · Events — Retro Computing ]

We keep vintage
computers alive

Apple Macintosh, Commodore, Amiga and vintage PCs — tested, refurbished and ready for a new home. We sell working classics and peripherals, restore the ones that need saving, and show them off at events, all by a small crew of obsessives who do wild things with old silicon.

$ serving Calgary · Airdrie · Crossfield · Chestermere · Cochrane · Okotoks & the greater Alberta area

Shop the collectionSell or trade yours
Watch the restorations on YouTube (opens in a new tab)

// What we do

Services

Everything we do, done obsessively well. Find your next classic, rent period-correct kit for a shoot, have a machine brought back to factory-fresh, or send us one that needs saving.

  • 01 / 04

    Buy · Sell · Trade

    Tested, working classics looking for a good home.

    Macs, Commodores, Amigas, vintage PCs — plus keyboards, mice, joysticks and peripherals, and boxed and loose software. We also keep a few DIY project machines that need a little TLC from their next owner. Every working machine is tested before it leaves us. Buy a working classic, sell us your attic finds, or trade up. In person now; online store landing soon.

    • Apple
    • Commodore
    • Amiga
    • PC
    • Software
    • Peripherals
    • Project machines

    $ In person now · online store soon

  • 02 / 04

    Refurbish & Retrobright

    Yellowed and grimy to factory-fresh beige.

    Deep cleaning, retrobrighting sun-yellowed plastics back to their original colour, replacing perished rubber feet, and testing every key and port. Cosmetic and mechanical, done properly — it's how every machine we sell gets ready for its next owner.

    • Retrobright
    • Deep clean
    • Key test

    $ Mainly on machines we sell · outside intake by inquiry

  • 03 / 04

    Repair & Restoration

    Dead machine? We bring it back to life.

    Recapping leaky logic boards, replacing failed PSUs, and swapping dying floppy and SCSI drives for modern flash storage. If it powered on in 1989, we can make it power on today. We take on a limited number of projects as time allows — reach out and we'll let you know.

    • Recap
    • PSU rebuild
    • BlueSCSI
    • Floppy emu

    CRT & monitor work? We refer that to our friend Jeff at Dirty Floppy Projects →

    $ Select repairs · by inquiry

  • 04 / 04

    Prop & Set Rentals

    Working period tech for your shoot.

    Filmmakers, photographers and stylists — rent authentic, working vintage computers, consoles and peripherals for your set. Our gear has already featured on film: an Atari 7800, period Macs and more, dressed and running for camera. Tell us the era and we'll match it.

    • Film & TV
    • Photo shoots
    • Period-correct
    • Working units

    $ By the day or production · by inquiry

// From the workshop

The Collection

A rotating cast of machines that have passed across the bench — tested, fixed, and running real software. This is what “alive” looks like.

  • Apple Macintosh SE/30 displaying the intro screen of Prince of Persia
    1989

    > Macintosh SE/30

    The legend, running Prince of Persia off a BlueSCSI.

  • Extreme close-up of a 1992 Apple logic board with surface-mount chips
    1992

    > Logic board, recapped

    Fresh capacitors on a genuine Apple board — macro detail.

  • BlueSCSI board with a Raspberry Pi Pico installed inside a vintage Macintosh drive bay
    2024

    > BlueSCSI v2 install

    A Raspberry Pi Pico standing in for a dead SCSI hard drive.

  • Three vintage Apple computers displayed on the Computer Compulsive booth table
    1986–93

    > The lineup

    Apple IIgs, Color Classic and SE/30 side by side at the booth.

  • Two boxed vintage games for sale — Ikari Warriors and the Commodore Amiga edition of Rainbow Islands
    1986–92

    > Boxed & loose software

    Original games for sale, boxed and loose — Ikari Warriors, Rainbow Islands and more.

  • A large wall of white shelving filled with vintage computers — a Commodore PET, monochrome-monitor systems and compact Macs arranged in a grid
    1977–94

    > The collection wall

    Row after row of tested classics — Commodore PET to compact Mac, all under one roof.

  • An Atari 7800 console and a boxed Centipede cartridge on a green carpet, a child's hands on the joystick
    For hire

    > Prop rentals available

    That Atari 7800 was a real prop rental — we hire out working vintage units for photo and film shoots.

  • A child in striped dungarees playing a game on a CRT television while a woman watches from an armchair
    On camera

    > On the film set

    One of our units, hired as a working period prop for a film shoot. Ask us about renting for your production.

Visitors gathered around the Computer Compulsive booth trying out vintage Apple computers

// First public event

Retro Tech
Days

We're bringing the collection out into the wild for our very first public event — two days at the Airdrie Public Library. Hands-on with real vintage machines, live demos, games running on original hardware, and a chance to talk retro tech with the crew.

DATES
·10 AM – 5 PM
·1 PM – 5 PM
VENUE
Airdrie Public Library — Create Space
ENTRY
Free · all ages

Note: We'll be set up in the Create Space. If a booking emergency comes up we'll move to an alternate room inside the library — follow our socials for the final word.

Register free on EventbriteGet directions

See all our events on Eventbrite →

build: online-store

// Online store

Coming soon

Compiling the shop

Keyboards, mice, joysticks, peripherals and fully-tested machines — soon shippable right across Canada. For now, catch us in person or drop a line.

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An Apple Macintosh SE/30 restored by Computer Compulsive, running Prince of Persia

// Who we are

A creative collaboration
of retro obsessives

Computer Compulsive started as a creative collaboration between Keith, Will and Craig — and a shared, slightly unreasonable love of the machines that started it all. Today we're a small, growing crew who repair, refurbish, retrobright and resurrect vintage computers.

We document the wild stuff on our YouTube channel — logic-board surgery, BlueSCSI mods, bringing dead Macs back from the grave — in the spirit of the 8-bit and 16-bit hacker culture that raised us. If it's old, weird and computational, we're into it.

  • KHKeith Harper · Co-Founder
  • WHWill Hollow · Co-Founder
  • CLCraig Learmont · Co-Founder

// Say hello

Get in touch

Looking to buy a classic, got something to sell, or a machine that needs saving? Want a heads-up when the store and the Airdrie event go live? Send a message — we read every one.

[email protected]PO Box 2247, Crossfield, AB T0M 0S0 Serving Calgary & the greater Alberta area

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