The very first personal computers - How many are left?

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Tue Apr 8 11:33:00 2003

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, steve wrote:

> 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

There were only 40 made (interestingly in Brentwood, California, just 30
minutes north of where I live in Livermore).

Here's a brief article:

http://www.pretext.com/mar98/shorts/short3.htm

I can stretch my imagination and believe that 10 may still be around, but
certainly not 20.

> > Altair 8800
> 500 (a,b,bt)

Move it over one decimal place to the left. From what I know, about
50,000 Altair's of all models were produced.

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