Top 10 Holy Grails of Classic Microcomputer Collecting

From: Allison J Parent <allisonp_at_world.std.com>
Date: Tue Oct 6 22:04:42 1998

< Tony Duell wrote:
< > Agreed. If I ever get an unbuilt kit my first reaction is to build the
< > thing. Examples of 1970's packaging are not very interesting to me :-
<
< I disagree. I have three unassembled Cromemco Dazzler kits. I plan to
< assemble one. But if I only had one unassembled kit I think I'd leave i
< that way. I personally do find the packaging to be of interest.

I'm with tony as the early altairs were not packaged other than needed for
shipping. Mine was very early and mostly poly bags of stuff like screws,
nuts washers wires and non esd sensitive parts, MOS parts in black foam
and sockets in pink foam. The PC card were between sheets of cardboard and
it was all in a box with a xeroxed 4th generation manual with atleast two
erata sheets for each board. Not much to look at. Some of the later
8800a and the 8800b machine had some nice bent corrigated and all.

Allison
Received on Tue Oct 06 1998 - 22:04:42 BST