The very first personal computers - How many are left?

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From: Dwight K. Elvey <dwightk.elvey_at_amd.com>
Date: Tue Apr 8 21:02:01 2003

>From: "The Design Fort DTP" <design.fort_at_ns.sympatico.ca>
>
>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

Hi
Missed the Poly88.
Dwight

>
>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 - 21:02:01 BST

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