The very first personal computers - How many are left?

From: Vintage Computer Festival <vcf_at_siconic.com>
Date: Wed Apr 9 02:32:00 2003

On Tue, 8 Apr 2003, Dwight K. Elvey wrote:

> >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.

Well, for that matter there's the Ithaca Intersystems DPS-1, Compal-80,
Sphere 6800, SWTPc 6800, Intel MCS-4, Intel MCS-8, KIM-1, Jolt, etc. (all
within the time frame between the Kenbak 1 and the IMSAI 8080).

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