Top 10 Holy Grails of Classic Microcomputer Collecting

From: Doug Yowza <yowza_at_yowza.com>
Date: Mon Oct 5 19:47:45 1998

On Tue, 6 Oct 1998, Tony Duell wrote:

> Tandy Deluxe CoCo (I think one has survived).

If so, somebody should put it out of its misery! I think there's a huge
dinstinction between "rare" and "desirable", and I personally find CoCo's
undesirable no matter how rare (you also won't find me chasing things like
the C65).

Most of the machines on Kai's list would bring me no joy. I wouldn't want
an Apple 1 because I'd be afraid to power it on. I wouldn't want an
Altair kit because it would be just a paperweight unless I built it (which
would be fun, but when I was done it would no longer be a kit). I
wouldn't especially want a Mark-8 since there was no "official" Mark-8
(sort of like the COSMAC Elf, it was just a magazine article).

Just for fun, here are my top 3 Holy Grails:

1) PDP-1 running SPACEWAR
2) Xerox Alto
3) Thinking Machine's CM-1

-- Doug
Received on Mon Oct 05 1998 - 19:47:45 BST