New Finds

From: John R. Keys, Jr. <jrkeys_at_concentric.net>
Date: Wed Oct 7 08:49:39 1998

Today I walked into a thrift store and found a stack of Popular Science,
Popular Mechanics, and others going back to 1974. I got real excited
thinking I would find that had Altair on the cover (does anyone remember
which issue that was ?), but no luck. I did get a October 1977 issue that
covers home computers for $595. In it were pictures and write-ups on the
following:
Commodore PET
Heath H-8 (article says new H-11 uses DEC LSI-1)
Radio Shack model 1
Altair 8800
Single-board 8084 from IMSAI
Southwest Technical's 6800
Sol Terminal Computer
Technical Design Labs Z-80 Xitan
Compucolor
The Digital Group
Cromeco Z-2
Poly 88 from PolyMorphic
Vector Graphic Vector 1+
Challenger System from OSI
EPA 6800 with hexidecimal keyboard
There were many more mentioned in the article, all together I purchased 12
different issues at 7 cents each. Got a few manuals for cpu's, software,
and printers all for 7 cents each. Got three apple IIc power supplies for $1
each along with various commodore power supplies for the same price. As
soon as someone can tell me the right issue I will go back looking for it.
John
Received on Wed Oct 07 1998 - 08:49:39 BST