6 Oct
1998
6 Oct
'98
9:48 a.m.
My personal list is much smaller and more mundane.. and more personal, these
are machines I actually worked on when I was very young.
1) Compucolor 2 (The Model with floppy disk in the monitor housing)
- I let one of these, working w/ software slip through my hands about 4-5
years ago
2) an Exidy Sorcerer
- I have a story about loosing a huge folder full of software and papers
because I left them at a computer store where I was working on one; when I
came back next week, they had folded and were gone. every time one comes up
on the net, I'm too late, alas.
3) Ohio Scientific Challenger 4p (?)
-Matt Pritchard
-----Original Message-----
From: Kai Kaltenbach [SMTP:kaikal@MICROSOFT.com]
Sent: Monday, October 05, 1998 5:45 PM
To: Discussion re-collecting of classic computers
Subject: Top 10 Holy Grails of Classic Microcomputer Collecting
Just for the hell of it, I thought I'd make a list of the Top 10 Holy
Grails
of classic microcomputer computer collecting. This is the "Rembrandt in
the
Attic" sort of stuff. These are roughly in my opinionated order, but
somewhat randomly ordered:
1. The Altair prototype that was to be the cover photo for Popular
Electronics but was lost in shipment
2. Xerox Alto
3. Mark 8
4. Scelbi 8H
5. Kenbak-1
6. Micral 8008
7. Apple I
8. An unassembled Altair 8800 Kit
9. Busicom Japan Intel 4004-based Calculator
10. IBM 5100
Kai