Found a few other items that might be of interest to someone.
Two DEC Mice VS10X-EA Rev A3
DEC Joystick Model H3060
bill
I seem to remember this being discussed many years ago, but I can't find it.
Anyway, there's an Altair on epay right now with a CYCLOID faceplate.
If I remember correctly, this is just a replacement plastic insert that was
sold simply to "freshen up" an Altair where the original had worn
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020 at 9:59 AM Bill Degnan via cctalk
wrote:
> I could set up an office or classroom of XTs. A funny if not impractical
> practical joke...
About 5 years ago, I set up a classroom of discarded but essentially
modern machines (Core2 Duo but couldn't run latest Windows) at our
On Tue, Aug 25, 2020 at 10:28 PM Hagstrom, Paul via cctalk <
cctalk@classiccmp.org> wrote:
> The circuit boards say "Apple Computer 1" on them. So they had the
> optimistic "1" in the name originally.
>
The user manual, schematic, and some but not all advertisements also say
"Apple 1" or
Fred Cisin wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2020, Alan Frisbie via cctalk wrote:
> > A few months later, two guys named Steve showed up at a meeting
> > with a kit they called the "Apple I", for the grand price of
> > $666.66. I wish I had had the foresight to buy one!
> Q: although WE call it "Apple
I delivered in a truck to the set up in Quebec the 20 IBM XTs that you see
in the movie Xmen the Apocalypse. I retrieved them after the filming. I
could set up an office or classroom of XTs. A funny if not impractical
practical joke
B
That is awesome!
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: Ethan O'Toole
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020, 9:32 AM Liam Proven via cctalk
wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 15:10, Bill Degnan wrote:
> >
> > I remember when the IBM XT was too new for a VCF exhibit, back when
> Sellam ran shows.
>
> I can believe that.
>
> I gutted 2 original working PC-ATs in about 1996 for cases
On Wed, 26 Aug 2020 at 15:10, Bill Degnan wrote:
>
> I remember when the IBM XT was too new for a VCF exhibit, back when Sellam
> ran shows.
I can believe that.
I gutted 2 original working PC-ATs in about 1996 for cases for
Pentium-class machines. I deeply regret it now but it was 25y ago --
On Wed, Aug 26, 2020, 7:43 AM Liam Proven via cctalk
wrote:
> I found this blog post quite interesting. I've left what I hope is an
> informative, helpful comment. I wonder if anyone else here would have
> more to add?
>
>
>
> On Aug 25, 2020, at 8:32 PM, Chris Elmquist wrote:
>
> On Tuesday (08/25/2020 at 04:36PM -0400), Paul Koning via cctalk wrote:
>> Not sure if this is off topic, but anyway..
>>
>> There was also one with "tree" in its name, don't remember its full name and
>> I think they shut down.
>
>
I found this blog post quite interesting. I've left what I hope is an
informative, helpful comment. I wonder if anyone else here would have
more to add?
https://www.forsure.dev/-/2020/05/19/640-kilobytes-of-ram-and-why-i-bought-an-ibm-5160/
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"That might be true for discussions where people don't care to do any
research, or where words like "first" are uses more for hyperbolic
emphasis, but suggesting someone started an industry on a list like this,
I think, doesn't seem out of place."
I agree that using ‘*first**’* has a certain
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