> Just for the hell of it, I thought I'd make a list of the Top 10 Holy Grails
> of classic microcomputer computer collecting. This is the "Rembrandt in the
> Attic" sort of stuff. These are roughly in my opinionated order, but
> somewhat randomly ordered:
> 1. The Altair prototype that was to be the cover photo for Popular
> Electronics but was lost in shipment
> 2. Xerox Alto
> 3. Mark 8
> 4. Scelbi 8H
> 5. Kenbak-1
> 6. Micral 8008
> 7. Apple I
> 8. An unassembled Altair 8800 Kit
> 9. Busicom Japan Intel 4004-based Calculator
> 10. IBM 5100
Hmm Breaking down to just 10 is hard, but when
it comes to the 'most desirable' ones, I would
personaly add at #1 the wooden PET prototype.
And eventualy the ATARI-ST prototype boards.
Gruss
H.
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Ich denke, also bin ich, also gut
HRK
Received on Tue Oct 06 1998 - 11:51:09 BST