Anybody see any Ohio Scientific hardware? (Still looking for a C8)
George Rachor
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George L. Rachor george_at_racsys.rt.rain.com
Beaverton, Oregon
http://racsys.rt.rain.com
On Mon, 28 Sep 1998, Doug Yowza wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Sep 1998, Megan wrote:
>
> > A home-brew digicomp I ????
> >
> > Someone get those plans!
>
> Doug Coward made the Digi-Comp I clone, as far as I know, by downloading
> scans from a web page:
> http://galena.tjs.org/digicomp/
> blowing them up, and then cutting the pieces from wood. It was very well
> done.
>
> The final day of VCF was great! I overslept, so I wandered in just as
> Gorden Bell's talk was set to begin. But before I could make it upstairs
> to the talk, I noticed that the vendors had brought fresh meat! By
> getting there three hours late, I missed some prime stuff, like the SWTP
> 6800 box (damn), but even arriving that late, I was able to nab a Heathkit
> H-8 chassis, a Lisa mouse (which I traded away later the same day), and
> some good books. I'm not much of a calculator collector, but I also got
> an HP 91 and the only calculator I've really ever desired, the Sharp EL-8.
>
> I also traded for a couple of things -- an Ampro Bookshelf Computer and a
> Linus Write-Top (which I've been trying to track-down for months to
> complete my early pen-based computer collection).
>
> So, this meant I arrived an hour late for Bell's one-hour talk. Luckily,
> he overran his allotted time by about 20 minutes, so I caught the tail-end
> of a PDP-6 discussion. In the Q&A, I asked him whether he planned to
> write a PDP-1 simulator, and he answered that Bob Supnik was doing one,
> but I got the impression that they hadn't been able to overcome the "media
> problem" of transfering? finding? restoring? some of the original
> software. I had previously been under the impression that there were
> about 200 PDP-1's built, but Bell gave a number of 40 (20 each at two
> installations). And then I got his autograph :-)
>
> Speaking of autographs, Lee Felsenstein stopped by and autographed the
> case of the Sol 20 I mentioned yesterday. No kidding.
>
> The Nerd Trivia Challenge was all it was hyped up to be. To give you an
> idea of the caliper of contestants, Kip Crosby (of CHAC) was one of them,
> and he didn't win. The only questions that stumped the panel were some
> semi-obscure questions about portable computers and the one about the
> first Apple ]['s serial number.
>
> Finally, prizes were awarded (including the IMSAI, which went to a visitor
> from Nevada, and a few original Bell Labs' CARDIACs which went to some
> exhibitors), and then we packed up and went home.
>
> Congrats to Sam for pulling this off. AFAIK, it's the only event like it
> in the world, and Silicon Valley is a great venue for the show. It's the
> next best thing to a time machine :-) See you there next year!
>
> -- Doug
>
>
Received on Mon Sep 28 1998 - 01:42:52 BST