-----Original Message-----
From: Tim Shoppa <shoppa_at_alph02.triumf.ca>
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
<classiccmp_at_u.washington.edu>
Date: Sunday, 17 May 1998 23:29
Subject: Re: North Star Horizon [Rare systems]
>> > > I'll have to finish that database. Oh yeah, just remembered the
Compal-80
>> > > (mid 70s S-100 box, very small, I'm sure some of the old hackers like
>> > > Allison have heard of it though).
>> >
>> > Sure! COMputer Power And Light.
>>
>> That's exactly right. An obscure (by today's standards for sure, but
>> don't know about back then...the references in the trade literature of
the
>> era are scarce) company that made S-100 boxes in the '75-'77(?)
timeframe.
>
>That's the wonderful thing about S-100 stuff; there were literally
>hundreds of small companies etching PC boards in the basement and
>selling them bare or with parts as kits. With this *huge* variety of
>boards available, what amazes me is that all the "serious collectors"
>and "serious museums" (where "serious"="have lots of money to spend")
>insist on pure Altair boardsets or pure IMSAI boardsets when I sell them
>restored machines.
>
>Tim. (shoppa_at_triumf.ca)
>
email: desieh_at_southcom.com.au
desieh_at_bigfoot.com
museum_curator_at_hotmail.com
Apple Lisa Web Page:
http://www.southcom.com.au/~desieh/index.htm
this is getting abit of track here but nobody seems to mind:
well im in australia and ive got some mechines that i bet you guys have
never heard of:
LabTam 3000
(from around 1980, Z80, 8086, huge thing with 12" greeney 8", 5 1/4" hard
drive 5MB i think)
Dick Smith System 80
(TRS-80 model 1 clone)
UNIVAC
(CPM box, looks like a terminal)
OSI C4P
(looks like a SOL termianl computer, dont know anything else about it?
anybody else know anything about it??)
Received on Mon May 18 1998 - 03:21:43 BST