18 Jan
2001
18 Jan
'01
6:45 a.m.
On Thu, 18 Jan 2001, Michael Passer wrote:
There is some information on the Interact at
http://www.tcp.com/%7elgreenf/otherpag.htm
Ah yes. I have a couple of these. Interesting machines, they are. The
above web page says it has an 8088 CPU but of course this is wrong (the
machine is circa 1978). It actually runs off an 8080. I have a few tapes
for it. Someone scored a nice one at either the last VCF or the one
before (or was it at a local ham fest? anyway...) It came with a box of
cassettes (must've been 20 of them or so).
I remember wanting one of these when I was a kid and
seeing the Protecto ads. FWIW, in high school, I actually
scraped enough money together to buy an APF
Imagination Machine when they were liquidating them,
but they were out of stock and I never got one. (They
did issue a refund.) And I still have a thing for orphaned
machines!
Too bad. The APF Imagination Machine is one of the hardest classic
computers to find. One once slipped through my fingers, but I did end up
with the external disk drive, which is perhaps even more rare :)
One day I'll find one.
Sellam Ismail Vintage Computer Festival
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