Crays and i432s (Was: RE: Apple 1's was Re: Collection list (jus t for phun))

From: Corda Albert J DLVA <CordaAJ_at_nswc.navy.mil>
Date: Thu Apr 12 13:31:32 2001

I wonder if the shrinkwrapped Cray-1 has one of those
shrinkwrap licenses... i.e. "By opening this package
you are agreeing to..." :)

BTW, I wouldn't mind getting my hands on an i432... a
long time ago ('84?) I actually worked on one for a year or
so in an attempt to get it to do something useful. I
had some success, but was continually hampered by
having to run over to another building to use their
VAX as a cross-compiler. Now that I have a VAX sitting
on my desk at home I imagine I could probably do quite
a bit more! It was a unique architecture (quite a
bit ahead of it's time) but hampered by the lack of
provision for I/O (usually handled by a 8086
co-processor board) and the lack of a native OS based
development package.

-al-



> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave McGuire [mailto:mcguire_at_neurotica.com]
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 12:12 PM
> To: classiccmp_at_classiccmp.org
> Subject: Re: Apple 1's was Re: Collection list (just for phun)
>
>
>
> 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
>
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