[ Sell · Repair · Events — Retro Computing ]
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
Watch the repairs on YouTube (opens in a new tab)// What we do
Three things, done obsessively well. Find your next classic, have one brought back to factory-fresh, or send us a machine that needs saving.
Tested, working classics looking for a good home.
Macs, Commodores, Amigas, vintage PCs — plus keyboards, mice, joysticks and peripherals. Every machine is tested and running before it leaves us. Buy a working classic, sell us your attic finds, or trade up. In person now; online store landing soon.
$ In person now · online store soon
Yellowed and grimy to factory-fresh beige.
Deep cleaning, retrobrighting sun-yellowed plastics back to their original colour, replacing perished rubber feet and foam, and testing every key and port. Cosmetic and mechanical, done properly — it's how every machine we sell gets ready for its next owner.
$ Per unit · turnaround by workload
Dead machine? We bring it back to life.
Recapping leaky logic boards, replacing failed PSUs, curing the flickering CRT, and swapping dying floppy and SCSI drives for modern flash storage. If it powered on in 1989, we can make it power on today.
$ Select repairs · by arrangement
// From the workshop
A rotating cast of machines that have passed across the bench — tested, fixed, and running real software. This is what “alive” looks like.
1989> Macintosh SE/30
The legend, running Prince of Persia off a BlueSCSI.
1992> Logic board, recapped
Fresh capacitors on a genuine Apple board — macro detail.
2024> BlueSCSI v2 install
A Raspberry Pi Pico standing in for a dead SCSI hard drive.
1986–93> The lineup
Apple IIgs, Color Classic and SE/30 side by side at the booth.
1986> Commodore 64C & friends
Boxed C64C, Macintosh LC and Plus — fresh from the attic.
1990s> Bell payphone
Pure nostalgia — not for sale or repair, just here for the vibes. Please lift receiver.
// First public event
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.
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.
// Online store
Coming soonKeyboards, mice, joysticks, peripherals and fully-tested machines — soon shippable right across Canada. For now, catch us in person or drop a line.
// Who we are
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.
// Say hello
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.
info@computercompulsive.caPO Box 2247, Crossfield, AB T0M 0S0 Serving Calgary & the greater Alberta area// Follow along
guest@compulsive:~$ ./send-message