8 Apr
2003
8 Apr
'03
9:23 a.m.
Herbert,
I think you'll find that there are a good number of Altairs, 5100s and Mark-8s
still around. I personally owned two Altairs and a 5100 up until last year. There are a
GOOD number of people on this list that Mark-8s, Altairs, 5100 and IMSAIs. Have you
checked Steve Gabaly's Altair register? He been trying to put together a list of all
the existing Altairs.
Joe
At 11:25 AM 4/8/03 -0400, you wrote:
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
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