The very first personal computers - How many are left?

From: steve <gkicomputers_at_yahoo.com>
Date: Tue Apr 8 10:38:00 2003

here are my guesses....

--- The Design Fort DTP <design.fort_at_ns.sympatico.ca>
wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> One thing I was always interested in - and the
> visitors in my Computer
> Museum often want to know - is how many of the very
> first personal computers
> are still in existence. By first PCs I mean the
> following machines:
> Kenbak 1
10-20
> Scelbi 8h
25
> Mark-8
Mark-8 was a set of plans and boards, so its hard to
define what a "Mark-8" is (would a set of boards
count? or does it have to be assembled???)
> IBM 5100
no idea
> Apple 1
50
> Altair 8800
500 (a,b,bt)
> IMSAI 8080
1000

again, just wild guesses.
steve
Received on Tue Apr 08 2003 - 10:38:00 BST