CC> Vintage Computer Festival Exhibition Write

From: PG Manney <manney_at_nwohio.com>
Date: Mon Oct 13 15:21:59 1997

 They would have tp be packed (crated) *very* well, sealed, dessicant, and
insured for everything up to and including strep infection of the
motherboard. What if the people bang or drop the box?

Anyone going over in a sailboat?

manney

-----Original Message-----
From: classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu <classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
To: Manney <Manney>
Date: Monday, October 13, 1997 5:44 AM
Subject: Re: CC> Vintage Computer Festival Exhibition Write



>
><Beaming in ten days later>
>
>On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, e.tedeschi wrote:
>
>> and what about the SINCLAIR SPECTRUM = the most sold and popular
>> computer ever produced in the world? I think it should be at least
>> listed in here!
>
>I think "the most sold and popular computer ever produced in the world"
>would be the Commodore 64. If we're talking about machines made by a
>single manufacturer, anyway.
>
>I've never, ever, EVER even come CLOSE to seeing a Sinclair Spectrum.
>I've only seen pictures in magazines and on the web.
>
>I'd love to find some of those Euro machines over here in Canada. Maybe
>the North American readers should try to get a group together to order
>Euro machines in bulk for shipment. All of the common ones and some of
>the uncommon ones. We'd need the cooperation of the collectors in Europe,
>of course.
>
>There are tons of machines from Acorn I'd love to have/see, a few from
>Sinclair, Oric, etc.
>
>All I find over here are C64s, VIC-20s, Apple ][s, TI-99s, CoCos, and
>occasionally a Kaypro.
>
>If we shipped in bulk, and used actual ocean-going vessels for shipment,
>how expensive would this kind of venture be?
>
>
>Doug Spence
>ds_spenc_at_alcor.concordia.ca
>
>
>
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