rarest computers. was: RE: Xerox Alto Restoration + Emulation

From: Tony Duell <ard_at_p850ug1.demon.co.uk>
Date: Mon Aug 2 23:27:04 2004

> 3) How many people have *significant* machines? One that made a dent in
> history, even if it was something as mundane as an Apple II or a
> PDP-11/34?

OK, from my colection, I could justify the historical impact of the
following :

HP9100 (alas mine's a B), one of the first programmable desktop machines
One of the PDP11s (probably the 11/45), for obvious reasons
PET2001 / TRS-80 Model 1 / Apple ][ (First mass-marketted micros)
Sinclar ZX81 (Instroduced a lot of UK kids to computing)
C64 (Ditto, in the States)
IBM PC 5150 (Surely you don't need me to explain why :-))

-tony
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