Top 10 Holy Grails of Classic Microcomputer Collecting

From: Matt Pritchard <MPritchard_at_EnsembleStudios.com>
Date: Tue Oct 6 16:48:44 1998

My personal list is much smaller and more mundane.. and more personal, these
are machines I actually worked on when I was very young.

1) Compucolor 2 (The Model with floppy disk in the monitor housing)
   - I let one of these, working w/ software slip through my hands about 4-5
years ago
2) an Exidy Sorcerer
  - I have a story about loosing a huge folder full of software and papers
because I left them at a computer store where I was working on one; when I
came back next week, they had folded and were gone. every time one comes up
on the net, I'm too late, alas.
3) Ohio Scientific Challenger 4p (?)

-Matt Pritchard

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Kai Kaltenbach [SMTP:kaikal_at_MICROSOFT.com]
> Sent: Monday, October 05, 1998 5:45 PM
> To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
> Subject: Top 10 Holy Grails of Classic Microcomputer Collecting
>
> 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
>
> Kai
>
>
Received on Tue Oct 06 1998 - 16:48:44 BST