On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Sellam Ismail wrote:
> On Wed, 6 Feb 2002, Peter C. Wallace wrote:
>
> > If its old enough, ICL was once allied with Singer (who made computer
> > equipment at the Singer/Friden plant in Good Old San Leandro)
>
> Alas, all I have of a Singer computer is half an unpopulated circuit board
> I found at a thrift (charity) store in the California central valley town
> of Stockton.
>
> I also have a couple Friden calculators, but I don't know where they would
> have been manufactured. I have the EC1117 and the Friden 132. And probably
> a couple others I can't recall right now.
>
> I'm in the process (slowly but surely) of setting up a computer museum at
> the ACCRC, and since it is in Oakland, will feature a primary exhibit of
> computers produced locally (in the East Bay, as that area is called).
> This would include Processor Technology (Berkeley and later Pleasanton),
> Northstar (Berkeley), IMSAI and Singer/Friden (San Leandro), Osborne
> (Hayward), Godbout/CompuPro (Oakland), and a couple I'm probably
> forgetting.
How about Morrow designs, El Dorado systems (sp?), Diablo systems...
>
> Can anyone else from this area clue me in on others? I'm sure Peter can
> name a few more.
>
> Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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Peter Wallace
Received on Wed Feb 06 2002 - 14:48:18 GMT