The very first personal computers - How many are left?

From: Keys <jrkeys_at_concentric.net>
Date: Tue Apr 8 15:38:00 2003

Where's your museum located ?
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From: "The Design Fort DTP" <design.fort_at_ns.sympatico.ca>
To: <cctech_at_classiccmp.org>
Sent: Tuesday, April 08, 2003 10:25 AM
Subject: The very first personal computers - How many are left?


> 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
> Scelbi 8h
> Mark-8
> IBM 5100
> Apple 1
> Altair 8800
> IMSAI 8080
>
> I know it's quite difficult to figure out how many Altairs or IMSAIS are
> still around. But a search on the Mark-8 e.G. (on the Internet) turned out
> that there are only a handful still in existence.
>
> Greetings
> Herbert
Received on Tue Apr 08 2003 - 15:38:00 BST