Ever seen a Cromemco Cyclops in the wild?

Bill Degnan billdegnan at gmail.com
Tue Jun 9 09:34:01 CDT 2020


The Cyclops was demoed by Bill Sudebrink at recent VCF East or two.
http://vintagecomputer.net/vcf13/Cromemco_Cyclops-1.jpg
http://vintagecomputer.net/vcf13/Cromemco_Cyclops-2.jpg
Bill Degnan

On Tue, Jun 9, 2020 at 9:21 AM Shoppa, Tim via cctalk <cctalk at classiccmp.org>
wrote:

> I think a Stanford AI lab has one in a display case. Any others out there?
>
> It was supposedly "commercial" but I don't even remember ever seeing an ad
> for the Cyclops from Cromemco and I had a really good stash of Cromemco
> literature and hardware.
>
> I do remember the BYTE article where you pop the top off of a DRAM chip to
> make a Camera but that was 1983-ish, nearly a decade after the Cromemco
> Cyclops was supposedly "commercial". In the discussions I had in the 80's
> none of us seemed to know about the Cromemco Cyclops having preceded it.
>
> Tim N3QE
>


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