Apple 1's was Re: Collection list (just for phun)

From: Eric Chomko <chomko_at_greenbelt.com>
Date: Thu Apr 12 12:43:03 2001

I would believe that someone actually had an Area 51 alien in the basement before I
would believe that they had six Apple 1's, an i432 dev system, the original 4004
mask set, an ibm 5100
proto, an EDSAC1, or a shrinkwrapped Cray-1.

Hey, but I'm not implying that Woz is an Area 51 alien! :)

Eric

Dave McGuire wrote:

> The likelihood of someone having six Apple 1s is similar to that of
> having an i432 dev system, the original 4004 mask set, an ibm 5100
> proto, an EDSAC1, or a shrinkwrapped Cray-1. Or even possibly Steve
> Wozniak (hopefully in shrinkwrap) etc etc etc.
>
> -Dave McGuire
>
> On April 12, Lawrence Walker wrote:
> > Was this a typo or do you really have 6 Apple 1's.
> >
> > larry
> >
> > > At 07:13 PM 4/10/01 -0400, THETechnoid wrote:
> > > >I'd like to see some of your lists. I bet some of you would be hard
> > > >pressedd to list your whole collection in a message that the list server
> > > >would accept (too large).
> > >
> > > I don't have a lot of machines, but I do focus more on quality than
> > > quantity after all:
> > >
> > > - i432 development system
> > > - the original 4004 mask set
> > > - IBM 5100 prototype
> > > - Apple I (qty 6)
> > ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> > > - EDSAC 1 (re-wired to run off 120V)
> > > - CRAY-1 (mint; still in shrinkwrap)
> > > - Steve Wozniak (mostly working, but sometimes needs power cycling)
> > > - Zuse Z1 (does anybody here have a copy of the boot disk?)
> > > - Analytical Engine running MSDOS 1.00
> > >
> > > My wife is getting kind of pissed about having all this stuff in the
> > > garage, though, so I might start trading this stuff for some calculators or
> > > something smaller.
> > >
> > > -----
> > > Jim Battle == frustum_at_pacbell.net
> > >
> > >
> >
> >
> >
> > Reply to:
> > lgwalker_at_look.ca
Received on Thu Apr 12 2001 - 12:43:03 BST