Basis 108 (was: TRW Swap Meet)

From: Frank McConnell <fmc_at_reanimators.org>
Date: Sat Feb 6 02:05:29 1999

Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org> wrote:
> BASIS Incorporated
> 5435 Scotts Valley Drive
> Scotts Valley CA 95066
> (408) 438-5804
>
> This would seem to imply that there should be quite a few more over here
> somewhere.

Hmm. I'm just flipping through some issues of the First Basis Users
Group newsletter, and it looks like Basis in Scotts Valley was out of
business by October 1983 (with its inventory being bought by an
"investor" and re-sold through a couple of other companies on west and
east coasts), and other attempts at establishing a distributorship
through other US-based companies met with varying degrees of failure,
with the end result being that if you wanted a Basis you had to buy it
from Basis in Germany or find a dealer willing to do that for you.
And it looks like there was some sort of Basis in Germany into at
least 1987 when I run out of newsletters.

But yeah, I have one, a friend has one, he had another one when he
lived back east, I've seen others go by, and they were very nice
machines, superior to Apple ][s in several ways. So I don't think the
108s are that uncommon in the US. A 208, now....

-Frank McConnell
Received on Sat Feb 06 1999 - 02:05:29 GMT