Newly acquire stuff

From: Marvin <marvin_at_rain.org>
Date: Wed Feb 10 11:03:13 1999

Doug wrote:

> OK, my turn to brag. Today was a good day. I got:
> a Commodore 128D
> a Heathkit 8088 trainer
> a few BYTE mags
> and ... an Olson!
>
> What's an Olson, you ask. It's a BYT-8 clone. What's a BYT-8, you ask.
> It's an ultracool front-panel S-100 box originally sold by the Byte Shop
> in Palo Alto around 1976:

IIRC, the Olson was marketed by Olson Electronics, and I used to go into
their Pittsburgh store each time I managed to get over there. Really nice
find!
Received on Wed Feb 10 1999 - 11:03:13 GMT